A backdoor in xz

Posted Mar 30, 2024 21:49 UTC (Sat) by MarcB (guest, #101804)
In reply to: A backdoor in xz by bluca
Parent article: A backdoor in xz

This looks like a major improvement, at the very least, the spill-over into other process address spaces will be prevented.

Let's hope distributions follow up on this and reduce the set of essential packages.