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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes
5.6.1 (2024-03-09)
+ IMPORTANT: This fixed bugs in the backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) (someone
+ had forgot to run Valgrind).
+
* liblzma: Fixed two bugs relating to GNU indirect function (IFUNC)
with GCC. The more serious bug caused a program linked with
liblzma to crash on start up if the flag -fprofile-generate was
@@ -30,6 +33,9 @@ XZ Utils Release Notes
5.6.0 (2024-02-24)
+ IMPORTANT: This added a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). It's enabled only
+ in the release tarballs.
+
This bumps the minor version of liblzma because new features were
added. The API and ABI are still backward compatible with liblzma
5.4.x and 5.2.x and 5.0.x.