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serious backdoor impacts major linux distros (Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, Debian) (monero.town)
submitted 7 months ago by bluedoves@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town
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Urgent: serious backdoor impacts major linux distros Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, Debian

DegenRocket has summarized the info & given you a simple command to check if your Linux machine is vulnerable:

https://linked-out.me/news/55d3c9f25acde2d95282

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[–] VolunTerry@monero.town 2 points 7 months ago

Actually, I had read that Arch is affected, and current advice was to update

https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

You'll probably want to move up to 5.6.1-2 out of an abundance of caution, as recommended here https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2024-3094