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Popular Rust Crate liblzma-sys Compromised with XZ Utils Backdoor Files (thehackernews.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/cybersecurity

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And is the backdoor actually included in the crate or is this an overhyped nothingburger?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

The original backdoor only worked if xz was being used by a linked sshd binary. Unless several other packages were targeted coorsinated attack, all of this is just clickbait and irrelevant.