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  • I’m a huge proponent of Gentoo Linux as a learning experience. It’s a great way to learn how the components of a system work together and the distro enables an amazing amount of configurability for your system.

    Even following a handbook install in a VM can be a good experience if you’re interested.






  • What? Bitwarden doesn’t give a shit about non standard ports on services you’re accessing. They’re a valid part of the URI string.

    Try changing your match detection settings in the add-on.

    If you’re talking about bitwarden not supporting being run from container on a non standard port, we’ll, you’re doing it wrong. Expose whatever port on the container then Add a proper reverse proxy / edge router like traefik, then set up some DNS and Let’s encrypt and only use 80 and 443 for all of your services.


  • TL;DR don’t worry (for now) - it only impacts rpm and deb builds and impacted releases only really made it into OpenSuSe tumbleweed - if you’re running bleeding edge maybe you need to worry a little.

    A laymans explanation about what happens is that the malicious package uses an indirect linkage (via systemd) to openssh and overrides a crypto function which either:

    • allows access to the system to a particular key
    • allows remote code execution with a particular key

    Or both!

    I have secondhand info that privately the reverse engineering is more advanced, but nobody wants to lead with bad info.

    As for what you should do? Unless you’re running an rpm or deb based distro and you have version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1 of xz-utils installed, not much. If you are, well, that comes down to your threat model and paranoia level: either upgrade (downgrade) the package to a non-vulnerable version or dust off and nuke the site from orbit; it’s the only way to be sure.