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my gut instinct is that xz needs to be rolled back to its pre-attack state, but obviously that would probably also reintroduce some bugs and likely break some t
by skywhopper 3y ago
my gut instinct is that xz needs to be rolled back to its pre-attack state, but obviously that would probably also reintroduce some bugs and likely break some things. Still, very curious to see some analysis on the impact of doing so, because this article points out, xz is in a critical path for lots of system level processes.
- fullstop 3y agoThere were symbol changes in recent releases, and things like apt link to liblzma. If liblzma were downgraded without also updating apt at the same time you could be left with a non-functioning apt.