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Snap Store Restricts Uploads Following Possible Security Issue (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by pnutzh4x0r@lemmy.ndlug.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Canonical is enacting manual reviews for all newly registered uploads to its Snap Store following what it describes as a ‘potential security incident’.

In this instance it appears that folks have uploaded apps purporting to be official apps/tools for crypto ledger tool Ledger and these apps were able to get folks backups codes (which people enter thinking it’s legit) and …the bad actors can use that to extract funds.

Based on what Canonical has said so far – and the actions they’ve taken – it doesn’t seem like these malicious snaps were exploiting security holes within snaps, snapd, or the Snap Store infrastructure itself – which is a good thing.

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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no, how could this have happened, packaging apps with extra complexity making it harder to verify they're legitimate, nobody could have possibly seen this one coming...

🙄

[–] federalreverse@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

More of a centralization/impersonation issue, no? After all, verifying a SHA sum is only helpful if you know the SHA sum of the trustworthy version of a package.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

I doubt they even did that, how would they compare it? They probably just dumbly trusted the name.

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Until there's an option to turn off auto-update (without killing the daemon), snap can go to hell.

Ive lost so much time with snap updating Firefox and breaking my current session of multiple private windows/tabs. (Yes, I know you can use the .deb version but I shouldn't have to go through those extra steps)

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Just spin up an in-house Snap Store Proxy. Distributed by snap, of course.

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there even Firefox deb for Ubuntu now?

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. But you have to add Firefox's PPA.

I just use Mint which had regular Firefox in their repo.

[–] sounddrill@lemmy.antemeridiem.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They killed that too on ubuntu iirc

[–] danielfgom@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did they? Oh f! That is plain nasty Ubuntu. Sounds alot like lock-in....

[–] garam@lemmy.my.id 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I remember they kill the deb in the end.. That's why I move using tar.gz, and move away from Ubuntu to fedora... rpms still better and usefull when we need rollback :v

[–] DocBlaze@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I feel like any seasoned Linux user knows to not EVER use the snap store. I'd rather use universal Windows platform apps, to be honest.