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No, it was snuck into the website download of the source code. If you got it from GitHub it was fine, if you got it from their website you got pwnd
That's not correct as far as I can tell. The backdoored code ended up in release tarballs (but not source tarballs because of
autoconf
fuckery), see eg. this mailing list discussion.Ah, you’re right. I wasn’t aware they had release tars on GitHub as well