Top 4 C Xz Projects
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Project mention: Jia Tan "JiaT75": Added error text to warning when untaring with bsdtar | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-17
Wild. All of these carefully inserted “seemingly innocuous” changes in the ecosystem to end up contributing to a wider exploit.
This comment sums it up nicely with a gif: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/pull/1609#issuecomm...
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Project mention: Deep Dive into XZ Utils Backdoor – Columbia Engineering Guest Lecture [video] | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-30
Worth a watch. There's also this GitHub where there's reverse engineering going on: https://github.com/smx-smx/xzre
We now know the answer to the question of "who would win?"
1) A years-long nation-state-backed hacking effort to infiltrate a software project and compromise most servers in the Western world
or
2) A German's obsession with efficiency and precision in engineering
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Project mention: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-29
Hey all, I’m the author of that PR. Just posted to Github with additional context: https://github.com/jamespfennell/xz/pull/2#issuecomment-2027...
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What are some of the best open-source Xz projects in C? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | libarchive | 3,003 |
| 2 | Minizip-ng | 1,216 |
| 3 | xzre | 90 |
| 4 | xz | 11 |
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