Supply chain attack on arrayref (blog.rust-lang.org)

submitted 1 week ago by Gobbel2000@programming.dev to c/rust@programming.dev

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If you recently used Cargo, make sure your system didn't get infected. Here is another article with a little more info: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/arrayref-rust-crate-supply-chain-attack

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[-] badmin@lemmy.today 0 points 1 week ago

I just wanted to ask, how do they build C libraries in JAVA world? And if the answer is they don't, they just ship binaries, then that's infinitely worse. And you just confirmed that's the case 😲😄.

[-] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Yep, it's all binaries.

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

In reality it very rarely happens that native binaries are needed for Java. I’m not even sure what libraries might use them nowadays - I would guess mostly commercial closed source.

I don’t think it’s “infinitely worse”, but it does mean you require builds for whatever platform you are on or you need to manually build it from source as a separate project.