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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Me, using arch and fedora 40 beta, just ignoring it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'm fairly sure NixOS Unstable also has it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Fedora got hit too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

QubesOS uses debian and fedora

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just did: "rm -rf xz"

pacman -Syu
find / -name "*xz*"  | sort | grep -e '\.xz$' | xargs -o -n1 rm -i 
pacman -Qqn | pacman -S -

(and please, absolutely don't run above as root. Just don't.) I carefully answered to retain any root owned files and my backups, despite knowing the backdoor wasn't included in the culprit package. This system has now "un-trusted" status, meaning I'll clean re-install the OS, once the full analysis of the backdoor payload is available.

Edit: I also booted the "untrusted" system without physical access to the web, no gui, and installed the fixed package transferred to it locally. (that system is also going to be dd if=/dev/zero'd)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Arch users are really just cannon fodder against supply chain attacks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

We're the front line dog. Strike me down so Debian Stable's legacy may live on.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Bro WTF. How about you actually read up on the backdoor before slandering Arch. The backdoor DOES NOT affect Arch.

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