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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by zamalek on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:04AM (#39874052)
Building from git, or the github automatic tarball would have. The larger issue here is authenticating tarballs against the source.
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Re:Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server com... by account42 on Friday April 05, 2024 @03:55AM (#39939787)
There is no reason to believe the exploit would have been spotted earlier had the attacker included the final part in git.
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