Malicious backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library and tool

Posted by bob on Mar 30, 2024 10:49 AM EDT
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Red Hat in all caps says STOP USAGE OF ANY FEDORA RAWHIDE INSTANCES. Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression library called xz may be present in Fedora Linux 40, 41, and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.…

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