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How to Check and Upgrade XZ on Mac OS

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

As you probably already know, a backdoor has been found in XZ Utils, a compression tool that is used for lossless compression in command line utilities. If you're looking to understand more about this vulnerability, you can find an excellent explanation on Reddit.

If you're a Mac OS and Homebrew user, there is a good chance that you have the version of XZ that everyone has been talking about installed on your machine. This article is about how to find out for sure and what to do about.

#Which versions are affected

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