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Uhhh heads up everyone:
https://lwn.net/ml/oss-security/20240329155126.kjjfduxw2yrlxgzm@awork3.anarazel.de/

> After observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz package) on Debian sid installations over the last weeks (logins with ssh taking a lot of CPU, valgrind errors) I figured out the answer:

> The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored.

As far as Debian is concerned, seems like only Sid was affected (fixed):
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html

Generally, XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1.

#InfoSec #Linux #Debian

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