Article 6N550 XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

XZ 5.6.2 Released With The Frightening Backdoor Removed

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#6N550)
It was two months ago today that an urgent security alert was issued over XZ being hit by malicious code that turned out to be a backdoor within liblzma added by a bad actor that worked his way into XZ co-maintainership. Longtime XZ developer Lasse Collin is back at the helm and has been auditing the prior XZ commits and today released XZ 5.6.2 with the backdoor completely removed...
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