testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 months agoXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up112arrow-down10cross-posted to: linux@lemmy.world
arrow-up112arrow-down1external-linkXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.comtesteronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml · 3 months agomessage-square33fedilinkcross-posted to: linux@lemmy.world
minus-squarepixxelkick@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoLasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer. “Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned. Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor. XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)
minus-squareAuli@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·edit-23 months agoYes but damage seems to be done. Distros are talking or have moved off of it to zstd.
minus-squareBillegh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThere are some, probably. But any exodus will be slow. Xz isn’t useless because it was dangerous once.
minus-squareintrepid@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoBesides, XZ isn’t the only project in such a danger. Banning doesn’t solve that problem. They need to put in more funding and eyes.
minus-squareCalyhre@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoI would argue this might make xz safer mid-term. So much eyes on it. I’m not familiar with other solutions, but who’s to say the bad actor won’t try a similar trick elsewhere
minus-squarePlexSheep@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoZstd and xz fullfil different needs. Xz take more time to compress and is faster to decompress as far as I know.
Lasse is the original maintainer of XZ, they have been placed back in their position as sole maintainer.
“Jia Tan” was the person who slipped the backdoor into XZ and is now banned.
Lasse has already fixed abd removed the backdoor.
XZ itself is critical software everyone uses (its one of the main compression/decompression programs used on linux)
Yes but damage seems to be done. Distros are talking or have moved off of it to zstd.
There are some, probably. But any exodus will be slow. Xz isn’t useless because it was dangerous once.
Besides, XZ isn’t the only project in such a danger. Banning doesn’t solve that problem. They need to put in more funding and eyes.
I would argue this might make xz safer mid-term. So much eyes on it. I’m not familiar with other solutions, but who’s to say the bad actor won’t try a similar trick elsewhere
Zstd and xz fullfil different needs. Xz take more time to compress and is faster to decompress as far as I know.