NewsBot

NewsBot

Arch Linux: The xz package has been backdoored

A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted!

To determine if you are affected, run the following:

% xz --version
xz (XZ Utils) 5.4.4
liblzma 5.4.4

If you see 5.6.0 or 5.6.1, you are vulnerable and you need to downgrade.


Get the full details here: Arch Linux - News: The xz package has been backdoored

Most Liked

Eiji

Eiji

Original topic on Elixir forum:

Cross-posted on Erlang forums:

Popular Linux topics Top

New
First poster: bot
A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Arch Linux - News: Arch Conf 2020 schedule
New
First poster: bot
A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Arch Linux - News: libtraceevent>=5.9-1 update r...
New
First poster: bot
A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Arch Linux - News: Manual pages indexing service
New
First poster: bot
A new Debian blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Arduino is back on Debian - Bits from Debian
New
First poster: bot
A new Debian blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: I love Free Software Day 2021: Show your love for Free ...
New
First poster: bot
A new openSUSE blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Entire Rebuild of Tumbleweed Brings Enormous Update -...
New
First poster: bot
A new Kubuntu blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Plasma 5.22 Beta (5.21.90) available for testing | Kub...
New
NewsBot
A new Debian blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Debian 11 "bullseye" has been released! - Bits from Debian
New
First poster: bot
A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted! Get the full details here: Arch Linux - News: libxml2>=2.9.12-6 update may ...
New

Other popular topics Top

Exadra37
Please tell us what is your preferred monitor setup for programming(not gaming) and why you have chosen it. Does your monitor have eye p...
New
AstonJ
I’ve been hearing quite a lot of comments relating to the sound of a keyboard, with one of the most desirable of these called ‘thock’, he...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Learn different ways of writing concurrent code in Elixir and increase your application's performance, without sacrificing scalability or...
New
DevotionGeo
The V Programming Language Simple language for building maintainable programs V is already mentioned couple of times in the forum, but I...
New
gagan7995
API 4 Path: /user/following/ Method: GET Description: Returns the list of all names of people whom the user follows Response [ { ...
New
AstonJ
We’ve talked about his book briefly here but it is quickly becoming obsolete - so he’s decided to create a series of 7 podcasts, the firs...
New
PragmaticBookshelf
Author Spotlight James Stanier @jstanier James Stanier, author of Effective Remote Work , discusses how to rethink the office as we e...
New
AstonJ
Was just curious to see if any were around, found this one: I got 51/100: Not sure if it was meant to buy I am sure at times the b...
New
New
husaindevelop
Inside our android webview app, we are trying to paste the copied content from another app eg (notes) using navigator.clipboard.readtext ...
New