{"id":4490,"date":"2024-03-30T18:53:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-30T18:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2024-03-31T05:45:10","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T05:45:10","slug":"about-backdoor-security-alert-for-xz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2024\/03\/30\/about-backdoor-security-alert-for-xz\/","title":{"rendered":"About backdoor security alert for xz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may have been alerted by the announcement that the <strong>xz<\/strong> software has been modified to introduce a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This software is a file compression utility. It is widely used in Mageia, since RPM packages are compressed using this utility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The alert concerns versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 of the software. Mageia does not use and has never used these versions. Mageia users therefore have no particular action to take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have been alerted by the announcement that the xz software has been modified to introduce a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This software is a file compression utility. It is widely used in Mageia, since RPM packages are compressed using this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/2024\/03\/30\/about-backdoor-security-alert-for-xz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[187],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p159kA-1aq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mageia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}