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

  • nabio
    1·
    9 months ago

    so you should check if you’re running xz version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1

    xz -V

    • lens17@feddit.de
      4·
      9 months ago

      I read somewhere that you should avoid starting xz if you don’t have to and therefore should use, for example,

      apt-show-versions xz

      (Though this has been two days ago and might not be relevant anymore, am not a dev).