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		jonahx on March 30, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH ser... I also had a homebrew installed affected version. I understand it's unlikely, but is there anything I can do to check if the backdoor was used? Also any other steps I should take after "brew upgrade"?

tomputer on March 30, 2024 [–]

Quoting[1] from Homebrew on Github:

>> Looks like that Homebrew users (both macOS and Linux, both Intel and ARM) are unlikely affected?

> Correct. Though we do not appear to be affected, this revert was done out of an abundance of caution.

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/167512

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