Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections
arstechnica.com
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Hopefully this does not affect you but if you are running something like Arch, OpenSUSE tumbleweed, Debian sid or Fedora Rawhide and use SSH for remote access you should do a full wipe.

  • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Wow, thank you for sharing this! Grumblegrumble have to reinstall my system…

    This straight on the back of a thread about flatpak verification and security - a reminder that a lot of the incredible work of a distribution, especially Debian, is a community of people curating packages with care, and not just for how quick they can be made to work together.

    Also a highlight for the work toward fully replicatable systems - if I understand right, the exploit here was snuck in in the binary, not in the source code.