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Debian security amirite? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by Emerald to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

There was a comment on Mastodon or Lemmy saying that the bad actor had been working with the project for two years so earlier versions may have malicious code as well already.

[–] mumblerfish 5 points 6 months ago

Distros like gentoo reverted to 5.4.2 for that reason. If debian stable is on 5.4.1 that should be ok.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Needless to say all his work ever will already be being reviewed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

They did but the malware wasn't fully implemented yet. They spent quite a while implementing it, I guess to try and make it less obvious.