• Doombot1@lemmy.one
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    8 months ago

    ELI5 what does this mean for the average Linux user? I run a few Ubuntu 22.04 systems (yeah yeah, I know, canonical schmanonical) - but they aren’t bleeding edge, so they shouldn’t exhibit this vulnerability, right?

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      8 months ago

      The average user? Nothing. Mostly it just affects those who get the newest versions of everything.

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        8 months ago

        In this case I think that’s just Fedora and Debian Sid users or so.

        The backdoor only activates during DEB or RPM builds, and was quickly discovered so only rolling release distros using either package format were affected.

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      8 months ago

      apt info xz-utils

      Your version is old as balls. Even if you were on Mantic, it would still be old as balls.