Lucas Werkmeister on Nostr: “Check if your machine is affected: run xz --version and see if it returns 5.6.0 or ...
“Check if your machine is affected: run xz --version and see if it returns 5.6.0 or 5.6.1.”
counterpoint: maybe *don’t* run the possibly malicious binary whose backdoor has barely been analyzed yet??
if you don’t know how to get the installed version out of your package manager, go look that up instead. it’ll also be useful in general :)
Published at
2024-03-30 01:36:18Event JSON
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