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Running Ubuntu 23.10 with xz-utils 5.41 which is unaffected. Versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 are the malicious packages. I used Synaptic Package Manager to search for it.
The bad actor had a launchpad bug to pull it into the Ubuntu LTS beta. Serious kudos to the person who discovered it, literally in the nick of time.
Same story with Fedora
On Ubuntu the only affected people were those running the prerelease of Ubuntu 24.04 who had installed the update from the
proposedpocket.