The Narrow Escape from the xz Disaster

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Originally published by Dazz.Written by Tomer Schwartz, Co-founder & CTO, Dazz.In the intricate world of software supply chain, the recent near-miss incident with CVE-2024-3094–the xz/liblzma backdoor–serves as a potent reminder of our system's fragility and the constant vigilance required to safeguard it. In short, a widely used open source package was compromised to add a backdoor to its officially released packages. For the uninformed, technical advisory says only versions 5.6.0 and 5....
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