This is another proof that systemd is an anti-pattern for security: with its crawling and ever growing web of dependencies, it extends the surface of vulnerability to orders of magnitude, and once embraced not even large distro communities can defend you from that.
A malware code injection in upstream xz-tools is a vector for remote exploitation of the ssh daemon due to a dependency on systemd for notifications and due to systemd's call to dlopen() liblzma library (CVE-2024-3094). The resulting build interferes with authentication in sshd via systemd.
A malware code injection in upstream xz-tools is a vector for remote exploitation of the ssh daemon due to a dependency on systemd for notifications and due to systemd's call to dlopen() liblzma library (CVE-2024-3094). The resulting build interferes with authentication in sshd via systemd.