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bluedoves @monero.town

10mo ago

serious backdoor impacts major linux distros (Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, Debian)

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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so you should check if you're running xz version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1
xz -V
- I read somewhere that you should avoid starting xz if you don't have to and therefore should use, for example,
  undefined
  
  apt-show-versions xz
  (Though this has been two days ago and might not be relevant anymore, am not a dev).

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