A whitelisting application has a list of what it knows it bad AND what it knows in advance to be good.
How would it know this? Is this defined by a person/people? If so, that wouldn’t have mattered. liblzma was known in advance to be good, then the malicious update was added, and people still presumed that it was good.
This wasn’t a case of some random package/program wreaking havoc. It was trusted malicious code.
Also, you’re asking for an antivirus that uploads and uses a sandbox to analyze ALL packages. Good luck with that. (AVs would probably have a hard time detecting malicious build actions, anyways).
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A “antivirus” tends to be a proprietary black box. Such “antivirus” programs could not of detected the XZ backdoor
All it took was one set of nerd eyeballs
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What?
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How would it know this? Is this defined by a person/people? If so, that wouldn’t have mattered. liblzma was known in advance to be good, then the malicious update was added, and people still presumed that it was good.
This wasn’t a case of some random package/program wreaking havoc. It was trusted malicious code.
Also, you’re asking for an antivirus that uploads and uses a sandbox to analyze ALL packages. Good luck with that. (AVs would probably have a hard time detecting malicious build actions, anyways).
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It places unknown/new software in a sandbox. You want an AV that tests all pre-existing packages in a sandbox.
That would do nothing for liblzma as it was trusted.
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The developer of XZ. What your describing is package verification which already happens