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What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

So if I don't use SSH am I fine? Because my distro doesn't let me remove the package. Other packages depend on it.

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

Unless you're running Debian testing you're safe. If ssh isn't open to the internet you're safe. Just make sure everything is up-to-date.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Debian testing has 'updated' to 5.6.1+really5.4.5-1 anyway, so as long as you've updated within the past few days it will have been downgraded to 5.4.5.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You can't remove it but you can downgrade.