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In a recent security announcement, Red Hat’s Information Risk and Security and Product Security teams have identified a critical vulnerability in the latest versions of the “xz” compression tools and libraries. The affected versions, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, contain malicious code that could potentially allow unauthorized access to systems. Fedora Linux 40 users and those using Fedora Rawhide, the development distribution for future Fedora builds, are at risk.

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Red Hat today issued an 'urgent security alert' for Fedora 41 and Fedora Rawhide users over XZ

CISA and Red Hat warned Friday about a supply chain compromise of XZ Utils software potentially affecting many Linux distributions.

Thanks to the packaging efforts of the members of the KDE SIG (especially Alessandro Astone, Justin Zobel and Steve Cossette), we now have enough updated packages in Fedora to create Fedora Kinoite nightly images with KDE Plasma 6.