JWF edit: More about this now on the Fedora Magazine: The xz package that has already entered the current F40 pre-release versions/variants and rawhide contains malicious code. This does NOT affect users of the Fedora releases (F38, F39 are thus not affected), but all users who use already F40 pre-release versions/variants or rawhide shall read this: Article: CVE details: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-3094 Be aware that this is CVE criticality 10: this is the highest ...
If you go to the post, on the comments, there is someone that is already telling you to run dnf list xz --installed. So you don’t need to run xz directly.
AFAIK it‘s better to use rpm -q xz xz-libs (copied from the forum replies) to avoid running xz itself just in case the affected version is already installed
Bad title. This is CVE-2024-3094. Run “xz --version” to see if you are affected.
If you go to the post, on the comments, there is someone that is already telling you to run
dnf list xz --installed. So you don’t need to runxzdirectly.“Run the affected binary to see if you have it”
AFAIK it‘s better to use
rpm -q xz xz-libs(copied from the forum replies) to avoid runningxzitself just in case the affected version is already installed