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love is in the air? (lemy.lol)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Yeah but the backdoor does not work on Arch (as far as we currently know). It relies on a linking of libraries that Arch doesnt do by default.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And as https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4 says:

"These conditions include targeting only x86-64 linux: [...] Building with gcc and the gnu linker [...] Running as part of a debian or RPM package build:"

I'm not an expert of course.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Holy shit that was a hell of a dive. And no wonder the dude got it working, he was just pounding those "test and translation" commits