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Ubuntu 24.04 Beta Delayed Due To XZ Nightmare
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this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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My $0.05 reading of it is that they want to hose down the build servers* and start clean, in case if the attacker escaped the sandboxing there.
* (the computers that compile all of the new packages from source, not web servers that are handing out finished deb binaries to the public.)
They're rebuilding all the newer builds "out of an abundance of caution." The servers themselves obviously don't run on experimental software.
This.