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by gpm 817 days ago
5.6.1-1 was built from what I understand to be one of the affected tarballs. This was patched in 5.6.1-2: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xz...

I agree on the sshd linking part.

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Interesting, they just switched from tarballs to source 19 hours ago. It seems to me that Frederik Schwan had prior knowledge of the security issue, or it is just a rare coincidence.
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