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    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 117 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Incorrect: the backdoored version was originally discovered by a Debian sid user on their system, and it presumably worked. On arch it's questionable since they don't link sshd with liblzma (although some say some kind of a cross-contamination may be possible via a patch used to support some systemd thingy, and systemd uses liblzma). Also, probably the rolling opensuse, and mb Ubuntu. Also nixos-unstalbe, but it doesn't pass the argv[0] requirements and also doesn't link liblzma. Also, fedora.

    Btw, https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202403-1

    [–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 17 points 7 months ago

    Sid was that dickhead in Toystory that broke the toys.

    If you're running debian sid and not expecting it to be a buggy insecure mess, then you're doing debian wrong.

    [–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Fedora and debian was affected in beta/dev branch only, unlike arch

    [–] fl42v@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

    Unlike arch that has no "stable". Yap, sure; idk what it was supposed to mean, tho.

    [–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago

    Yes, but Arch, though it had the compromised package, it appears the package didn't actually compromise Arch because of how both Arch and the attack were set up.