Emerald@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoDebian security amirite?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up1997arrow-down114
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minus-squarepiefedderatedd@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoThere was a comment on Mastodon or Lemmy saying that the bad actor had been working with the project for two years so earlier versions may have malicious code as well already.
minus-squaredan@upvote.aulinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoThey did but the malware wasn’t fully implemented yet. They spent quite a while implementing it, I guess to try and make it less obvious.
minus-squaremumblerfish@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoDistros like gentoo reverted to 5.4.2 for that reason. If debian stable is on 5.4.1 that should be ok.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoNeedless to say all his work ever will already be being reviewed.
There was a comment on Mastodon or Lemmy saying that the bad actor had been working with the project for two years so earlier versions may have malicious code as well already.
They did but the malware wasn’t fully implemented yet. They spent quite a while implementing it, I guess to try and make it less obvious.
Distros like gentoo reverted to 5.4.2 for that reason. If debian stable is on 5.4.1 that should be ok.
Needless to say all his work ever will already be being reviewed.