A sophisticated backdoor designed to undermine SSH authentication has been discovered in the widely-used xz Utils compression library. Security researchers averted a potential supply chain disaster when the malicious code was found in beta releases of Fedora Rawhide and Debian’s testing and experimental branches. A recently discovered backdoor in the xz Utils compression tool (versions […]
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