Urgent: Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros
Vulnerabilities mentioned
All| CVE | Vulnerability | CVSS | EPSS | Signals | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-3094 | Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0 | 10.0 | 86% |
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Ravie Lakshmanan Mar 30, 2024 Linux / Supply Chain Attack Red Hat 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 code designed to allow unauthorized remote access. The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 , has a CVSS score of 10.
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