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The purpose of this is to\nfaciliate security research of how this backdoor was snuck in over the course of 2 years of active contributions\nand to search for other possible issues.\nFor background see: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4\n\n## Datasets\nUsing ClickHouse's database of all repo events across GitHub ever, I created three datasets\nof github events: the suspect users contributions, and one of all events in their shared project repo\nthat actually hosted the compromised releases.\n\nDatasets are CSV files with a header row and a data type row, following\nClickHouse's [CSVWithNamesAndTypes](https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/interfaces/formats#csvwithnamesandtypes)\nFormat.\n\n### Contributions: JiaT75\n\nContributions by prime sispect user JiaT75 (Jia Tan). \n\nFile:\n`jiaty75_github.csv`\n\n### Tuukani-project Repos\n\nGitHub events (commits, comments, etc.) from https://github.com/tukaani-project\nfilted to before discovery (as there are a lot of unserious comments/events after discovery)\nfile_time \u003c= '2024-03-29 15:59:59'\n\nFile:\n`tuukani_project_before_discovery.csv`\n\n### Contributions: Larhzu\n\nSuspect user Larhzu (Lasse Collins i.e. Lars Collins, Lasse being a nickname for Lars in Scandinavia)\nwas also suspended by GitHub and is the only other owner on the compromised project.\n\nFile:\n`larhzu_github.csv`\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Femirkmo%2Fxz-backdoor-github","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Femirkmo%2Fxz-backdoor-github","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Femirkmo%2Fxz-backdoor-github/lists"}