thesamesam

FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

SwitHak

Security Advisories / Bulletins / vendors Responses linked to Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

Errors, typos, something to say ?

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Other great resources

• Royce Williams list sorted by vendors responses Royce List
• Very detailed list NCSC-NL
• The list maintained by U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency: CISA List

mimura1133

#!/bin/bash
# Original : https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Microsoft/linux-vm-tools/master/arch/install-config.sh

###############################################################################
# Update our machine to the latest code if we need to.
#

if [ "$(id -u)" -ne 0 ]; then
    echo 'This script must be run with root privileges' >&2
    exit 1