full-disclosure - Re: Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached

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Message-ID: <8a6b8e350808221144i6a532e9dq8cd9455e9cd9fbbe@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 11:44:48 -0700
From: "James Matthews" <nytrokiss@...il.com>
To: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached

Hmm.......

RedHat's package signing key was used to sign trojaned OpenSSH
packages. RedHat does not think these were distributed via the Red Hat
Network auto-update service.

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:37 AM, coderman <coderman@...il.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:41 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio
> <juha-matti.laurio@...ti.fi> wrote:
> > ...
> > "One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing
> Fedora packages."
>
> deploying all new signing keys to every fedora install.  this is akin
> to verisign deploying a new root.
>
> thanks for such a prompt update guys!
>
> (aug14 discovery to aug22 announce...)
>
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