Pack

Pack (by PackOrganization)

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  • Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise
    49 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Mar 2024
    The `pack`[0] compression utility that reached the HN front page the other day[1] is setting off my alarm bells right now. (It was at the time too, but now doubly so)

    It's written in Pascal, and the only (semi-)documented way to build it yourself is to use a graphical IDE, and pull in pre-compiled library binaries (stored in the git repo of a dependency which afaict Pack is the only dependent of - appears to be maintained by the same pseudonymous author but from a different account).

    I've opened an issue[2] outlining my concerns. I'm certainly not accusing them of having backdoored binaries, but if I was setting up a project to be deliberately backdoorable, it'd look a lot like this.

    [0] https://pack.ac/

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793805

    [2] https://github.com/PackOrganization/Pack/issues/10

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PackOrganization/Pack is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of Pack is Pascal.


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