Friday, March 29, 2024

Re: archivers/xz: update to 5.6.1

Thanks, Christian!

On Fri, Mar 29, 2024 at 4:35 PM Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
Jesse Darrone:

> I hate to raise the alarm, but it looks like this should be scrutinized.
>
> It sounds like a backdoor made it into the upstream repository:
> https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4

Yes, I just learned.  I am investigating.

FWIW, I did look over the complete 5.4.5 -> 5.6.1 diff as part of
my regular update procedure, but didn't catch this in the 144028-line
diff.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de

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