An update ...
This is fixed in xz 5.6.1. I tested the fix and it works for me.
https://github.com/tukaani-project/xz/commit/82ecc53819
Rather than mess with Fedora 40 again, I did a build in Rawhide only:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2024-7e9c14633a
I guess if this goes well w
On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 01:46:13PM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> We updated xz to new version 5.6.0 last week. It was supposed to be a
> safe change so we backported it to F40 at the request of the xz
> author. But there's been a report of possible memory corruption:
>
> https://bugzilla.re