I heard about this last week but now the community has addressed the issue. Nothing I run was affected and Ubuntu and Debian both announced their Stable OS versions were not affected. Interesting article also listing distros affected at the link below.
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/03/...d-distros/
The link below is to the guy who discovered the vulnerability. It also provides a vulnerability checking bash script which I ran on all my systems.
https://codenotary.com/blog/backdoor-in-upstream-xz
Just another reason why runnng Ubuntu LTS and/or Debian Stable is your best bet.TC
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2024/03/...d-distros/
The link below is to the guy who discovered the vulnerability. It also provides a vulnerability checking bash script which I ran on all my systems.
https://codenotary.com/blog/backdoor-in-upstream-xz
Just another reason why runnng Ubuntu LTS and/or Debian Stable is your best bet.TC
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