Tag: backdoor

  • What we should learn from the xz backdoor

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    You may have heard that a vulnerability was found in the xz tool and liblzma library on Friday, 29th of March 2024 which specifically targeted sshd being managed by systemd on Debian and RedHat Linux systems. What happened The catastrophic scope of the attack At first the backdoor seems very odd. xz is a compression…