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The xz attack shell script
Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz…
- Points
- 606
- HN comments
- 313
- Submissions
- 1
- Cited by
- 6 commenters
Security & PrivacyOpen Source2024
On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2024 | The xz attack shell script by todsacerdoti | 606 | 313 |
Cited in comments
Linked from 6 Hacker News comments by 6 different people, from Apr 2024 to Oct 2025.
Most recent:
- sanjams · Oct 19, 2025
- nindalf · Feb 8, 2025
- mrspuratic · Apr 5, 2024
- speps · Apr 5, 2024
- MonkeeSage · Apr 3, 2024
- kzrdude · Apr 3, 2024
