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Re: heanet.dl.sourceforge.net hacked?

From: Rainer Duffner <rainer_at_nospam>
Date: Wed Apr 30 2008 - 16:23:14 GMT
To: Michael Scheidell <scheidell@secnap.net>


Michael Scheidell schrieb:
>
> or have wrong file?
>
> in attempting to upgrade png (due to security problem), we tried to
> pull from sourceforge mirrors.
> (note below, libpng says file size for libpng-1.2.27.tar.bz2 with
> scripts should be 641193) heanet has a bigger file.
> other sourceforge.net mirrors have it right.
>
> Was heanet.dl hacked? are some people downloading a trojanized
> version of png?
> all attempts (in the past) to contact sourceforge had been useless.
>
> http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
>
>
> Attempting to fetch from
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/.
> fetch:
> http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/libpng/libpng-1.2.27.tar.bz2:
> size mismatch: expected 641193, actual 804821
>

I now get identical files (well, at least from switch.ch and heanet and surfnet.

cheers,
Rainer