My mastodon feed is full of IT security specialist talking about the xz affair where someone let a backdoor in some library.
But beside showing the two side of Free/Libre software (anybody can add a backdoor, and anybody can spot it), I have no idea how it impacts the average person. Is it a common library or something used only by specific application ? Would my home-grade router protects me ?
The average user? Likely doesn’t. the package is for Linux, so that removes any windows users.
The version was only on “bleeding edge” releases, so if you are on a lts release you will likely be ok.
Ubuntu 16 is lts, right?
16.04 is LTS. 16.10 hasn’t been updated or supported for 6 years
So it’s safe! No new malware in there!
Also no advertising in apt output!