Re: xz 5.6.1 vulnerability; downgrade to 5.4.6

2024-03-30 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 29, 2024, at 20:10, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > it's not yet clear if or when or how [the developers] will respond to this. The official response page from the original developer is now up and will be updated with more information soon: https://tukaani.org/xz-backdoor/

xz 5.6.1 vulnerability; downgrade to 5.4.6

2024-03-29 Thread Ryan Schmidt
Today a security issue was disclosed [1] in the xz package, which contains the xz program (used for example by MacPorts to decompress xz-compressed source code archives) and the liblzma library (used by many other programs). Versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 (to which the MacPorts port was updated a coup