My mastodon feed is full of IT security specialist talking about the xz affair where someone let a backdoor in some library.

But beside showing the two side of Free/Libre software (anybody can add a backdoor, and anybody can spot it), I have no idea how it impacts the average person. Is it a common library or something used only by specific application ? Would my home-grade router protects me ?

  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I don’t even have xz installed on my machine. Could anyone clue me in for what it is normally used?

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      9 months ago

      It’s a library/tool for a specific type of compression. You may have seen .tar.xz files.