WARNING: malicious code (was: Re: [Announce] Simple Patch Policy)

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Mon Jul 7 19:22:01 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:58 PM, Artifex Maximus <artifexor at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 04:26:07PM +0200, Sandro Mani wrote:
>>
>> >  * A script automating most of the process of validating and processing the
>> > request can be found at
>> >
>> > https://github.com/manisandro/fedora-process-simple-patch/blob/master/process-simple-patch.py
>>
>> Do not run this script, because it contains malicious code that
>> might remove all files from your system! The code can be found in lines
>> 301-302:
>>
>> | 301   os.chdir("/")
>> | 302   shutil.rmtree(os.getcwd())
>
> Found no such lines. rmtree is only in line 361 (shutil.rmtree(tmpdir)).

Read the rest of the thread ...
tl;dr: This was just a mistake it has already been resolved.


More information about the devel mailing list