Late Night Linux – Episode 276

There’s only one news story this week and it’s a big one. A backdoor has been found in xz-utils, and there’s a lot to discuss about it. Plus details of a couple of Linux events in the UK later this year.   Support us on Patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes   News Hybrid Cloud Show is a new show that’s part of the Late Night Linux Family! Subscribe to the All Episodes feed How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to ssh server compromise Everything I know about the XZ backdoor research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attack XZ threat actor Jia Tan’s change to libarchive which introduced an exploitable situation made it into Windows New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update) Ubuntu Security Podcast Episode 224 I am not a supplier   OggCamp is happening later this year! Gary gives us the details.           See our contact page for ways to get in touch. RSS: Subscribe to the RSS feeds here