CVE-2024-3094: How to Protect Against the SSHD Backdoor Found in XZ Utilities

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CVE: CVE-2024-3094 Affected versions: 5.6.0, 5.6.1 Affected Distributions: Fedora 41, Fedora Rawhide, Alpine, openSUSE, Debian experimental distributions versions 5.5.1alpha-0.1 to 5.6.1-1. On March 29, 2024, CISA warned of a malicious backdoor in the popular data compression software library XZ Utils. The vulnerability has been designated as CVE-2024-3094, and has been assigned a CVSS (Common Vulnerability […]