- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- privacy@lemmy.ml
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.
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bleistift2 ( @bleistift2@feddit.de ) English15•3 months agoIn some cases, the backdoor has been unable to work as intended. The build environment on Fedora 40, for example, contains incompatibilities that prevent the injection from correctly occurring.
It’s really funny that it’s package incompatibilites that saved us.
There’s a joke that I can’t find now about how hard it is to install a virus in Linux even if you try.