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Debian: DSA-5649-1 moderate: xz-utils update for liblzma5 injection risk

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Calendar Grey March 29, 2024
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-4876-1 concerns a vulnerability in libarchive, affecting the libarchive13 package with unauthorized access.
Andres Freund discovered that the upstream source tarballs for xz-utils, the XZ-format compression utilities, are compromised and inject malicious code, at build time, into the res...
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security advisory update debian package update malicious code code injection compression utility xz-utils liblzma5

Summary

Right now no Debian stable versions are known to be affected.
Compromised packages were part of the Debian testing, unstable and
experimental distributions, with versions ranging from 5.5.1alpha-0.1
(uploaded on 2024-02-01), up to and including 5.6.1-1. The package has
been reverted to use the upstream 5.4.5 code, which we have versioned
5.6.1+really5.4.5-1.

Users running Debian testing and unstable are urged to update the
xz-utils packages.

For the detailed security status of xz-utils please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xz-utils

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



Package: xz-utils
CVE ID: CVE-2024-3094

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Topics Covered

security advisory update debian package update malicious code code injection compression utility xz-utils liblzma5

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