Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS - Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update) https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/noble-numbat-beta-delayed-xz-liblzma-security-update/43827 #linux #ubuntu #opensource
Noble Numbat Beta delayed (xz/liblzma security update)

Canonical never stops working to keep Ubuntu at the forefront of safety, security, and reliability. As a result of CVE-2024-3094, Canonical made the decision to remove and rebuild all binary packages that had been built for Noble Numbat after the CVE-2024-3094 code was committed to xz-utils (February 26th), on newly provisioned build environments. This provides us with confidence that no binary in our builds could have been affected by this emerging threat. As a result of this, the Beta release ...

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@nixCraft nothing about removing their patch that connected OpenSSH to liblzma in the first place. Strange.