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Re: xz, possibly libarchive, backdoor that affects ssh

  • Subject: Re: xz, possibly libarchive, backdoor that affects ssh
  • From: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb [ at ] tricolour [ dot ] ca>
  • Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:43:35 -0400
On 24/03/29, Alex Pilon via sigs-l3go wrote:
> In case you didn't see the news a few hours ago ON A GOOD FRIDAY THANKS
> A LOT.
> 
>     https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4
>     https://lwn.net/Articles/967180/
>     https://boehs.org/node/everything-i-know-about-the-xz-backdoor
>     https://gist.github.com/thesamesam/223949d5a074ebc3dce9ee78baad9e27
>     https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2024-3094 (has links to all the other distros)
>     https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112180715824680521
>     https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810
> 
> @bcrl, it was a Postgres developer who found out the bug while trying to
> quiesce a system.

Thanks Alex.  I'd seen this earlier today and thankfully so far, all
debian stable are not vulnerable, neither is fedora 40 beta or
earlier.  No RHEL is vulnerable.  Nasty indeed.

> Good night.

	slainte mhath, RGB

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