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The Ubuntu 24.04 beta has been delayed for a week due to malicious code in the xz-utils package. Updates and fixes are being worked on.
A backdoor that seems to have been purposely placed in the open source XZ Utils data compression library could have led to widespread compromise across the Linux ecosystem, and the community is on the trail of an individual developer who seems to be behind it.
Linux was hit with a serious supply chain attack involving XZ Utils, a set of tools and libraries most Linux distros use for data compression.
Microsoft software engineer Andres Freund discovers a backdoor lurking in the XZ Utils data-compression tools, which are open source and widely used across Linux distributions.
Nation-state attackers apparently backdoored widely used, open-source data compression software as part of a supply chain attack. Malicious code inserted into