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How the xz backdoor highlights a major flaw in Nix | Shade's Blog
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That's true, but you have to know there was a backdoor first. If someone doesn't know, and they use the latest version, they're vulnerable to attack
@starman @GarlicToast true but I don't think you can use nix and not know about the xz exploit within minutes of it being found out.
Do you have an RSS feed of CVEs impacting Nixos?
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0I believe the point they were making is that if you are techy enough to use nix, they are likely the type to keep up to date with news like this.
If the issue had been critical, then the branch head could be rolled back, causing everyone to downgrade
That's a nice idea in theory but not possible in practice as the last Nixpkgs revision without a tainted version of xz is many months old. You'd trade one CVE for dozens of others.