Red Hat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most Linux distros
March 29, 2024 at 01:55PM Red Hat issues urgent warning regarding backdoor discovered in the latest XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development versions. The malicious code, assigned a 10/10 critical severity score, compromises sshd authentication, potentially allowing unauthorized remote system access. Users are advised to revert to uncompromised version and monitor … Read more