TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.

  • Jay🚩@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile non SystemD systems like NetBSD FreeBSD OpenBSD are safer.

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      8 months ago

      What does this have to do with systemd? Aren’t they safer in this situation because they aren’t using the beta xz release?

      My systems running Debian stable with systemd also aren’t affected…

      • mister_monster@monero.town
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        8 months ago

        This particular backdoor affects sshd on systems that use libsystemd for logging.

        your Debian system is probably not affected because Debian stable doesn’t update packages very quickly. You’re probably on an older release of the backdoored package.

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          8 months ago

          You’re probably on an older release of the backdoored package.

          Nope, Debian uses a version from before the backdoor

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        8 months ago

        The reason openssh links liblzma in the first place is to enable a systemd feature, so naturally “systemd bad, it’s proximity to a security issue is yet more proof that a pile of shell scripts in a trenchcoat is a superior init system” etc

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      8 months ago

      You can have a nefarious developer working for a nation state infiltrate the supply chain for ANY OS.

      You don’t know.

    • Possibly linuxOP
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      8 months ago

      That is not really true. If anything they would be easier to infiltrate