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Message-ID: <20130925141347.GC4589@mars-attacks.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:13:47 +0200
From: Nicolas Vigier <boklm@...s-attacks.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Reproducible Builds for Fedora
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013, Steve Grubb wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 10:08:01 AM Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
> > I was checking the rpm-compare how it actually is doing the compre
> > and you have:
> >
> > [...]
> > base=`basename $f`
> > objdump -d rpm1/$f | grep -v $base > dump1
> > objdump -d rpm2/$f | grep -v $base > dump2
> > diff -u dump1 dump2 > /dev/null
> > if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
> > echo "File disassembly differs $f"
> > cnt=`expr $cnt + 1`
> > fi
> > [...]
> >
> > for ELF files and doing a sha256sum for other file types. My concern is
> > that attackers could construct a package that contains function-names that
> > match the basename of the binary that you are checking.
>
> Thanks for the feedback. I think the 'grep -v' can be replaced with sed
> '1,2d'. Its purpose was to delete the file path that objdump inserts at the top
> which causes miscompares.
Or something like this ?
(cd rpm1; objdump -d $f > ../dump1)
(cd rpm2; objdump -d $f > ../dump2)
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