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CVE-2024-3094: Urgent alert for Fedora Linux 40 and Rawhide users (fedoramagazine.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Me: fixes exposure to vuln

Also me: grabs popcorn

This is going to be an interesting story once this all quiets down...

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.

And that’s just one project that had a burnt out maintainer who welcomed some help from this guy. There are probably others. The hobby project becoming a core piece is a big issue.

[–] SuperIce 20 points 8 months ago

Yeah, it looks like that little Jenga block from the xkcd meme was XZ and a bunch of infrastructure is gonna have issues because of it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Gonna take a bit. The dudes been doing the releases for over a year, everything they touched is suspect now even if nothing earlier is known. Also some other associated accounts have been doing shady stuff too.

gonna take even a bit more now. Github closed the account and project making it really difficult to see their commits and merges and analyze them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It’s also at https://git.tukaani.org.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Fixes exposure

It says F39 users are not affected. Are you running Rawhide/F40 Beta? p

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Running Arch, so not really exposed, but still had a compromised version installed.