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
    32·
    8 months ago

    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
      51·
      8 months ago

      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.