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.

  • SMillerNL@lemmy.world
    22·
    1 年前

    No, it was snuck into the website download of the source code. If you got it from GitHub it was fine, if you got it from their website you got pwnd

    • hydroptic@sopuli.xyz
      41·
      1 年前

      That’s not correct as far as I can tell. The backdoored code ended up in release tarballs (but not source tarballs because of autoconf fuckery), see eg. this mailing list discussion.