On Friday March 29, Microsoft employee Andres Freund shared that he had found odd symptoms in the xz package on Debian installations. Freund noticed that ssh login was requiring a lot of CPU and decided to investigate leading to the discovery.
The vulnerability has received the maximum security ratings with a CVS score of 10 and a Red Hat Product Security critical impact rating.
Red Hat assigned the issue CVE-2024-3094 but based on the severity and a previous major bug being named Heartbleed, the community has cheekily named the vulnerability a more vulgar name and inverted the Heartbleed logo.
Luckily the vulnerability has been caught early
Red Hat wrote: “Malicious code was discovered in the upstream tarballs of xz, starting with version 5.6.0. Through a series of complex obfuscations,…
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