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		dannyw on March 31, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated... What led to continuous investigation wasn't just the 500ms pause, but large spikes in CPU activity when sshd was invoked, even without a login attempt.

BuildTheRobots on March 31, 2024 [–]

What lead to it was the fact he was already micro-benchmarking postgresql along with a couple of other bits of fluke. We were all extremely lucky.

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