Malicious SSH BACK DOOR Found in XZ on Linux
689XZ back door open source code in Linux was found exploiting ssh with liblzma. Linux Distros like Fedora, Red hat, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux and more maybe effected.. this vulnerability needs to be patched immediately by updating or reverting xz hack
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Discord: https://discord.gg/P9QC2km
OSS Sec - https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
Manjaro - https://forum.manjaro.org/t/xz-package-contains-a-vulnerability/159028
RedHat - https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users?xml
Debian - https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html
Ubuntu - https://askubuntu.com/questions/1509015/is-ubuntu-affected-by-the-xz-backdoor-compromise
GitHub - https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27?permalink_comment_id=5005854
Post - https://xeiaso.net/notes/2024/xz-vuln/
Repology Package Check - https://repology.org/project/xz/versions
Arch Linux - https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
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