While this issue does not in fact affect OpenBSD, I think it will still be of interest to OpenBSD users -- a lot of us deal with Linux in our dayjobs, after all.
This is one of the best explanations of the matter I have seen so far: https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/technologist-vs-spy-the-xz-backdoor and it leads in with a quote to remember - "This dependency existed not because of a deliberate design decision by the developers of OpenSSH, but because of a kludge added by some Linux distributions to integrate the tool with the operating system’s newfangled orchestration service, systemd." Enjoy! -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team https://bsdly.blogspot.com/ https://www.bsdly.net/ https://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
