bugtraq - Re: heanet.dl.sourceforge.net hacked?

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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:43:40 -0400
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@...ticasttech.com>
To: Rainer Duffner <rainer@...ra-secure.de>
Cc: Michael Scheidell <scheidell@...nap.net>,
	bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: heanet.dl.sourceforge.net hacked?

Sourceforge and slashdot had server issues today.

<http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2008/04/30/slashdot_sourceforge_back_online_after_outage.html 
 >

Regards
Marshall

On Apr 30, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Rainer Duffner wrote:

> Michael Scheidell schrieb:
>>
>> or have wrong file?
>>
>> in attempting to upgrade png (due to security problem), we tried to  
>> pull from sourceforge mirrors.
>> (note below, libpng says file size for libpng-1.2.27.tar.bz2 with  
>> scripts should be 641193)  heanet has a bigger file.
>> other sourceforge.net mirrors have it right.
>>
>> Was heanet.dl hacked?  are some people downloading a trojanized  
>> version of png?
>> all attempts (in the past) to contact sourceforge had been useless.
>>
>> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>>
>>
>> Attempting to fetch from http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/ 
>> .
>> fetch: http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.27.tar.bz2 
>> : size mismatch: expected 641193, actual 804821
>>
>
>
> I now get identical files (well, at least from switch.ch and heanet  
> and surfnet.
>
>
>
>
> cheers,
> Rainer