A serious backdoor was found in xz, a basic linux package.

Report: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

If you run archlinux, like I do, you are likely affected: https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

May be lucky due to sshd not linked with liblzma in Arch.

Upgrade!!!

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Lesson is to switch to Ubuntu or Debian? 🧌

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naah backdoor could easily exist there too. We are very lucky this was found so early.