unhinge@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoHow do you track security vulnerabilities?message-squaremessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up181file-text
arrow-up181message-squareHow do you track security vulnerabilities?unhinge@programming.dev to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
Do you rely on mailing lists or news articles for security vulnerabilities? Please share. I only got to know about xz/liblzma [1] and curl [2] [3] vulnerabilities through lemmy (maybe because of high severity?). 1 ↩︎ 2 ↩︎ 3 ↩︎
minus-squaredelirious_owl@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoWhy does the xz thing require human intervention?
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.delinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoIf you had it on a computer that is accessible via SSH from the internet you should proceed under the assumption that it was compromised. Which means you should reinstall from a safe medium and change your keys and passwords.
Why does the xz thing require human intervention?
If you had it on a computer that is accessible via SSH from the internet you should proceed under the assumption that it was compromised. Which means you should reinstall from a safe medium and change your keys and passwords.