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[–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

ELI5 what does this mean for the average Linux user? I run a few Ubuntu 22.04 systems (yeah yeah, I know, canonical schmanonical) - but they aren’t bleeding edge, so they shouldn’t exhibit this vulnerability, right?

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The average user? Nothing. Mostly it just affects those who get the newest versions of everything.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In this case I think that's just Fedora and Debian Sid users or so.

    The backdoor only activates during DEB or RPM builds, and was quickly discovered so only rolling release distros using either package format were affected.

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