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RedHat reported a 10/10 vulnerability in the xz compression library.

The vulnerability provides remote backdoor access and present in xz 5.6.0 and 5.6.1.

There’s also an interesting discussion of this vulnerability on HackerNews:
 annoying - the apparent author of the backdoor was in communication with me over several weeks trying to get xz 5.6.x added to Fedora 40 & 41 because of its "great new features".

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The Register Malicious SSH backdoor sneaks into xz, Linux world's data compression library STOP USAGE OF FEDORA RAWHIDE, says Red Hat while Debian Unstable and others also affected
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