> > Hi everyone, > > Yesterday (2021-03-28) two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src > repo [1] from the names of Rasmus Lerdorf and myself. We don't yet know how > exactly this happened, but everything points towards a compromise of the > git.php.net server (rather than a compromise of an individual git > account). >
That is scary. Can you disclose the contents of the commits? Are they specially designed to open a security hole, or to be harmful in another way? > While investigation is still underway, we have decided that maintaining > our own git infrastructure is an unnecessary security risk, and that we > will discontinue the git.php.net server. Instead, the repositories on > GitHub, which were previously only mirrors, will become canonical. This > means that changes should be pushed directly to GitHub rather than to > git.php.net. > This change will be welcome anyway! — Benjamin
