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submitted 7 months ago by bluedoves@monero.town to c/monero@monero.town

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Urgent: serious backdoor impacts major linux distros Fedora, Kali, openSUSE, Debian

DegenRocket has summarized the info & given you a simple command to check if your Linux machine is vulnerable:

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[–] nabio@monero.town 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

so you should check if you're running xz version 5.6.0 or 5.6.1

xz -V

[–] lens17@feddit.de 4 points 7 months ago

I read somewhere that you should avoid starting xz if you don't have to and therefore should use, for example,

apt-show-versions xz

(Though this has been two days ago and might not be relevant anymore, am not a dev).