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CVE-2024-47611
XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. When built for native Windows MinGW-w64 or MSVC, the command line tools from XZ Utils 5.6.2 and older have a command line argument injection vulnerability. If a command line contains Unicode characters for exampl...
CVE-2024-47611 XZ Utils on Microsoft Windows platform are vulnerable to argument injection
XZ Utils provide a general-purpose data-compression library plus command-line tools. When built for native Windows MinGW-w64 or MSVC, the command line tools from XZ Utils 5.6.2 and older have a command line argument injection vulnerability. If a command line contains Unicode characters for exampl...
PT-2024-32672 · Xz Utils · Xz Utils
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: XZ Utils versions 5.6.2 and older Description: The issue concerns a command line argument injection vulnerability in XZ Utils when built for native Windows. This occurs when Unicode characters in filenames are converted to similar-looking ASC...
XZ Utils 安全漏洞
XZ Utils is an open source utility program by Tukaani. A security vulnerability exists in XZ Utils version 5.6.2 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to perform a parameter injection or directory traversal attack...
Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident
High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. For example, carefully constructed forum responses on precision targeted accounts and follow-up "out-of-band" interactions regarding underground rail system simulator software...
OpenJS Foundation Targeted in Potential JavaScript Project Takeover Attempt
Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Utils project. "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails...
Popular Rust Crate liblzma-sys Compromised with XZ Utils Backdoor Files
"Test files" associated with the XZ Utils backdoor have made their way to a Rust crate known as liblzma-sys, new findings from Phylum reveal. liblzma-sys, which has been downloaded over 21,000 times to date, provides Rust developers with bindings to the liblzma implementation, an underlying libra...
Backdoor in XZ Utils That Almost Happened
Last week, the Internet dodged a major nation-state attack that would have had catastrophic cybersecurity repercussions worldwide. It’s a catastrophe that didn’t happen, so it won’t get much attention--but it should. There’s an important moral to the story of the attack and its discovery: The...
Exploit for Embedded Malicious Code in Tukaani Xz
CVE-2024-3094-Checker The repository consists of a checker fil...
Defense in depth: XZ Utils
We explore assessment, prevention, and detection strategies for protecting your organization from the XZ Utils vulnerability...
The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code...
XZ Utils Backdoor
The cybersecurity world got really lucky last week. An intentionally placed backdoor in XZ Utils, an open-source compression utility, was pretty much accidentally discovered by a Microsoft engineer--weeks before it would have been incorporated into both Debian and Red Hat Linux. From ArsTehnica:...
Malicious Code in XZ Utils for Linux Systems Enables Remote Code Execution
The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of facilitating remote code execution, a new analysis has revealed. The audacious supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094 CVSS score: 10.0, came...
XZ Utils Backdoored, A Supply Chain Nightmare
Summary: Multiple Linux distributions face a potential supply chain threat due to the introduction of malicious code into a widely-used library. A backdoor was discovered within the XZ Utils library, inserted roughly a month ago. This compromise allows attackers to manipulate and intercept data...
Exploit for Embedded Malicious Code in Tukaani Xz
Description Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarb...
Tukaani Project XZ Utils Backdoor (Feb/Mar 2024)
The XZ Utils of the Tukaani Project have been backdoored by an unknown threat actor in February and March 2024. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...
Backdoor Discovered in XZ Utils: Patch Your Systems Now (CVE-2024-3094)
By Waqas Critical Backdoor Alert! Patch XZ Utils Now CVE-2024-3094 & Secure Your Linux System. Learn how a hidden backdoor… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Backdoor Discovered in XZ Utils: Patch Your Systems Now CVE-2024-3094...
Backdoored XZ Utils (CVE-2024-3094)
On Friday, March 29, after investigating anomalous behavior in his Debian sid environment, developer Andres Freund contacted an open-source security mailing list to share that he had discovered an upstream backdoor in widely used command line tool XZ Utils liblzma. The backdoor, added by an...
