STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected
Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution.
Users of other Linux and OS distributions should check to see which version of the xz suite they have installed. The infected versions, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, wereThis supply-chain compromise may have been caught early enough to prevent widespread exploitation, and it may only mainly affect bleeding-edge distros that picked up the latest xz versions right away.have indicated they are, like Fedora, affected; all users should take action to identify and remove any backdoored builds of xz.
"The resulting malicious build interferes with authentication in sshd via systemd," Red Hat explains."SSH is a commonly used protocol for connecting remotely to systems, and sshd is the service that allows access."
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