Re: Malware find in the news: xz related.

On Sun, 31 Mar 2024 12:05:58 -0400, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

On 3/31/24 08:38, John McCue wrote:

Thanks, here is another interesting link that describes how the issue
occurred and indicates why *BSD and Distros like Slackware would not
be vulnerable.

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My understanding is that effectively the differentiating factor of if a
distro is impacted or not is if it uses systemd or not.

sshd supports compression. xz is an option for how things are compressed.
Regards, Dave Hodgins