Re:Ask HN: Am I safe regarding xz?
by bashonly on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:05PM
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based on what is currently known, arch was never vulnerable to the backdoor that was discovered. arch doesn't patch sshd so that it links systemd like how debuntu/fedora do, which was a requirement for the backdoor.
ofc this doesn't rule out any as-of-yet unknown vulnerabilities in xz/liblzma.
ofc this doesn't rule out any as-of-yet unknown vulnerabilities in xz/liblzma.