Category: Xz
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Upcoming Fwupd Linux Firmware Updates to Utilize Zstd Compression
Richard Hughes, the developer and maintainer of Fwupd, recently made an announcement that upcoming versions of the widely used Linux firmware updater, responsible for firmware updates of a range of hardware devices in GNU/Linux distributions, will no longer utilize XZ Utils, but will switch to Zstandard (zstd) instead. The decision to move away from XZ…
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Critical Security Flaw Alert for Fedora Linux 40/41 and Rawhide Users by Red Hat
Today, Red Hat has issued an urgent security alert for Fedora Linux 40, Fedora Linux 41, and Fedora Rawhide users concerning a security flaw (CVE-2024-3094) found within the XZ Utils 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 packages. This flaw could potentially allow unauthorized remote access via SSH. It appears that the upstream tarballs of the XZ Utils 5.6.0…