March 31, 2024 at 01:30PM

■■■■□ Supply-Chain attack: Red Hat on Friday released an “urgent security alert” warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious code designed to allow unauthorized remote access.

The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094, has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. It impacts XZ Utils versions 5.6.0 (released February 24) and 5.6.1 (released March 9).

https://thehackernews.com/2024/03/urgent-secret-backdoor-found-in-xz.html

https://t.me/cKure/13764