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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: XZ Vulnerabillity. Gentoo Immune.
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 11:37:22 -0400
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Farley Flud wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> The mainstream GNU/Linux distros are infected with poisoned
> XZ code.
>
> But Gentoo is totally immune:
>
> "Our current understanding of the backdoor is that is does
> not affect Gentoo systems, because 1. the backdoor only
> appears to be included on specific systems and Gentoo does
> not qualify; 2. the backdoor as it is currently understood
> targets OpenSSH patched to work with systemd-notify support.
> Gentoo does not support or include these patches;"
>
> (From the Gentoo Security Database)
>
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  That piece of junk systemd
> does it again!
>
> Brother, unless you are using systemd-free Gentoo, then
> you are tremendously sick in the head.
>
> Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Run "xz --version" and tell us what you see.

-- 
Q:	What's hard going in and soft and sticky coming out?
A:	Chewing gum.