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Re:What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infe... by christophilus on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:20AM (#39893886)
The exploit didn’t actually run on those distros, though. Only on deb/rpm targets. So, effectively, it was stopped before it hit production.
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Re:What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infe... by cozzyd on Monday April 01, 2024 @09:35AM (#39894037)
Tumbleweed is rpm-based, though maybe not so used in production
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