Linux Backdoor Discovered by Accident, Prompts Urgent Warnings from Red Hat and Debian
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An “urgent” Linux backdoor was discovered entirely by accident this week by Microsoft developer Andres Freund.
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Freund noticed curiously high CPU usage by an SSH process, which led him to uncover the backdoor exploit.
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Red Hat urgently warned that recent versions of Fedora operating systems contained malicious code for backdoor access.
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Debian also issued a similar warning about the Linux exploit being found in their systems.
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Freund said discovering the exploit “really required a lot of coincidences,” thankfully his memory and curiosity uncovered a serious security threat.