Re: Security Breach Alert - CVS Home File Download Area Compromised

[Larry Jones]

Mark D. Baushke writes:
> 
> When I got to the cvs-1.11.18-Darwin-7.7.0-powerpc.gz.sig link using
> 'w3m' (a text-based browser) it seems to have the wrong Content-Encoding
> (of 'gzip') for the .sig files in the macosx directory.

That makes sense -- it tries to automagically unzip the content, which
fails because the content isn't zipped, so you end up with a 0-length
file (or no file at all).  And probably no indication that anything went
wrong, since you wouldn't want to confuse the poor user with an error
message.

-Larry Jones

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