XZ Utils Faced What is Probably The Biggest Exploit in FOSS

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  • Debian and Fedora based Distros (almost all of Linux is affected.
  • Carefully planned over many years.
  • Discovered by Andres Freund when benchmarking SSH connections.

The maintainer should not be the one to blamed. He was working for free on a project that was used even by multi trillion dollar companies every single day. He too was a victim. Instead, think about what is going on with closed source software at the moment.

If you would like to see a more detailed breakdown, you can read the Openwall post and watch the following video stream with real experts discussing the exploit:

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