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GitHub announces stance on sha256 stability

by tgamblin on 2/22/23, 7:14 PM with 2 comments

  • by remram on 2/22/23, 8:22 PM

    > If you rely on stable archives for security (ensuring you don’t accidentally trigger a tarbomb, for example), we recommend you switch to release assets instead of using source downloads.

    Isn't that actually the only way you could get a zipbomb? git-archive will never generate a zipbomb...

  • by metalliqaz on 2/22/23, 7:40 PM

    I think they're being too lenient to be honest. Projects were assuming too much by recording and relying upon those hashes.