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The problem, he found, was in the liblzma data compression library, which is part of the XZ package, and he concluded that "The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored."Which Linux distributions have been affected by the backdoored XZ packages?
The Linux variant of the malware has not been described publicly, although the first version has been tracked to 2021. Cybersecurity company ESET has previously seen DinodasRAT compromising Windows systems in an espionage campaign dubbed 'Operation Jacana,' that targeted government entities.
RedHat on Friday released an "urgent security alert" warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious...
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A vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utilities included in most Linux distributions, may "Enable a malicious actor to break sshd authentication and gain unauthorized access to the entire system remotely," Red Hat warns. The cause of the vulnerability is actually malicious code present in versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the xz libraries, which was accidentally found by Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL developer and software engineer at Microsoft.
Today, Red Hat warned users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development versions because of a backdoor found in the latest XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries. "No versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux are affected. We have reports and evidence of the injections successfully building in xz 5.6.x versions built for Debian unstable."
Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the "wall" command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user's password or alter the...
A vulnerability in the wall command of the util-linux package that is part of the Linux operating system could allow an unprivileged attacker to steal passwords or change the victim's clipboard. WallEscape impacts the 'wall' command, which is typically used in Linux systems to broadcast messages to the terminals of all users logged to the same system, such as a server.
A Linux version of a multi-platform backdoor called DinodasRAT has been detected in the wild targeting China, Taiwan, Turkey, and Uzbekistan, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. DinodasRAT, also...