Source: securityboulevard.com – Author: Dragos Josanu
XZ Utils is a collection of open-source command-line tools for lossless data compression, including XZ and LZMA. It is an upstream package for almost all Linux distributions. Without an early discovery, the open-source software supply chain would have distributed this backdoor to virtually all Linux systems embedding XZ, making it one of the most dangerous ever built. In this particular case…
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Blog – Balbix authored by Dragos Josanu. Read the original post at: https://www.balbix.com/blog/balbix-guide-to-xz-utils-backdoor/
Original Post URL: https://securityboulevard.com/2024/04/balbix-guide-to-xz-utils-backdoor/
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