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Arch Linux – News: The xz package has been backdoored

https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

by contact9879 • 2 years ago

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sebazzz• 2 years ago

Unfortunately, in my experience, upgrading Arch rarely goes unpunished. As you’re syncing your whole system with whatever is the lastest (and only the latest) version on the mirror - if something is broken, it is broken. If the mirror is not fully synced and you’re updating then, you may end up upgrading your system to an inconsistent state (one issue I had is that the libc version was incompatible with the libarchive version - consequently breaking pacman).

seba_dos1• 2 years ago

Unless there were more vectors than the one already described, Arch package was never affected (and if there were more, it's still affected).

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