Phoronix on Nostr: XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed It was two months ago today ...
XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-5.6.2-Released 
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