CISA and the open source community are responding to reports of malicious code being embedded in XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1. This activity was assigned CVE-2024-3094. XZ Utils is data ...
On March 29, 2024 local time, developer Andres Freund reported the existence of a malicious backdoor in XZ Utils. According to him, it was confirmed that malicious code was present in versions 5.6.0 ...
XZ is a compression tool used in many Linux distributions, and this time the attack specifically targeted the OpenSSH server process 'sshd.' In distributions such as 'Ubuntu,' 'Debian,' and ...
A newly discovered backdoor in XZ Utils, a data compression utility present in nearly all Linux distributions, has revived the ghosts of previous major software-supply chain security scares such as ...
A backdoor has been implanted in the two latest versions of XZ Utils — a set of data compression software tools and libraries ‘present in nearly every Linux distribution,’ according to Red Hat. Red ...
There is a gaping security hole in the widespread XZ utils that could potentially be misused to inject malicious code. A security vulnerability has been discovered in the XZ compression library. This ...