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Debian security amirite? (lemmy.world)
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[-] TheGingerNut@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 5 months ago

Even if you're using debian 12 bookworm and are fully up to date, you're still running [5.4.1].

The only debian version actually shipping the vulnerable version of the package was sid, and being a canary for this kind of thing is what sid is for, which it's users know perfectly well.

[-] piefedderatedd@piefed.social 2 points 5 months ago

There was a comment on Mastodon or Lemmy saying that the bad actor had been working with the project for two years so earlier versions may have malicious code as well already.

[-] jabjoe@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

Needless to say all his work ever will already be being reviewed.

[-] dan@upvote.au 5 points 5 months ago

They did but the malware wasn't fully implemented yet. They spent quite a while implementing it, I guess to try and make it less obvious.

[-] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Distros like gentoo reverted to 5.4.2 for that reason. If debian stable is on 5.4.1 that should be ok.

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