TL;DR there was a backdoor found in the XZ program. All major distros have been updated but it is recommended that you do a fresh install on systems that are exposed to the internet and that had the bad version of the program. Only upstream distros were affected.
Meanwhile non SystemD systems like NetBSD FreeBSD OpenBSD are safer.
What does this have to do with systemd? Aren’t they safer in this situation because they aren’t using the beta xz release?
My systems running Debian stable with systemd also aren’t affected…
The reason openssh links liblzma in the first place is to enable a systemd feature, so naturally “systemd bad, it’s proximity to a security issue is yet more proof that a pile of shell scripts in a trenchcoat is a superior init system” etc
You can have a nefarious developer working for a nation state infiltrate the supply chain for ANY OS.
You don’t know.
Agreed
That is not really true. If anything they would be easier to infiltrate