@testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1371arrow-down15
arrow-up1366arrow-down1external-linkXZ Utils is back on GitHub and Lasse Collin has been unbannedgithub.com@testeronious@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-square@xlash123@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilink198•1 year agoCommit 77a294d Update maintainer and author info. The other maintainer suddenly disappeared. Lmao, that’s putting it lightly.
minus-square@7eter@feddit.delinkfedilink117•1 year agothe other maintainer now has a special place: Special author: Jia Tan was a co-maintainer in 2022-2024. He and the team behind him inserted a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) into XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 releases. He suddenly disappeared when this was discovered.
Commit 77a294d
Lmao, that’s putting it lightly.
the other maintainer now has a special place: