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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: CoreOS vulnerability inherited from Gentoo?
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2016 16:22:12
Message-Id: loom.20160602T181634-587@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CoreOS vulnerability inherited from Gentoo? by "Max R.D. Parmer"
1 Max R.D. Parmer <maxp <at> trystero.is> writes:
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4 > > Which file contains the purported malaised default configration?
5 > > I just want to manually inspect it and verify for myself.
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7 > /etc/pam.d/system-auth which is provided by pambase:
8 > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/pambase.git/
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11 Huh. I looked at that and concluded it could not possibly be the problem.
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13 I went a bit deeper at coreOS and found that they are using
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15 pambase-20101024 from 2010. Double_huh. I had heard they were behind
16 on updating may ebuilds, but that is ridiculous. Here are the details
17 should anyone be interested::
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19 https://github.com/coreos/coreos-overlay/commit/
20 048faeb3b1b1a693dec3bdb47b127b8d71c48c13
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22 I (previously) had high regards for CoreOS, but not keeping things current
23 is usually the largest source of problems and sploits, imho.
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26 thx,
27 James