research!rsc: The xz attack shell scriptPosted on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Introduction Andres Freund published the existence of the xz attack on 2024-03-29 to the public oss-security@openwall mailing list. The day before, he alerted Debian security and the (private) distros@openwall list. In his mail, he says that he dug into this after “observing a few odd symptoms around liblzma (part of the xz packag
