The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Evolving threats ...

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Red Hat is warning that a vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utility included in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, is a backdoor. Users should either downgrade the utility ...

In a reminder that open source products can carry significant risks beyond intellectual property, a vulnerability in a compression tool commonly used by developers has triggered widespread concerns.

The infamous XZ Utils backdoor discovered last year may have a bit of life in it yet. Binarly on Aug. 12 published research concerning the XY Utils backdoor, a notorious incident in which a developer ...

An enormous cyber-attack that would have had a catastrophic impact on millions of computer systems across the planet was thwarted over the weekend by a lone researcher, who spotted a backdoor in the ...

Over the past few days, the security world has been abuzz with the discovery of a backdoor snuck into a compression utility called xz-utils. While this backdoor was effectively a near miss, getting ...

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 ...

In April 2024, it was discovered that a malicious backdoor had been installed in the compression tool 'XZ Utils' built into Linux distributions. Open Source Security (OpenSSF), which monitors open ...

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