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FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094)

This is a living document. Everything in this document is made in good faith of being accurate, but like I just said; we don't yet know everything about what's going on.

Background

On March 29th, 2024, a backdoor was discovered in xz-utils, a suite of software that

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ffmpeg record screen on Mac M1 chip via command line

Install ffmpeg.

brew install ffmpeg

Figure out which device to use.

ffmpeg -f avfoundation -list_devices true -i ""

Ouput will look like:

Pure ESM package

The package that linked you here is now pure ESM. It cannot be require()'d from CommonJS.

This means you have the following choices:

Use ESM yourself. (preferred)
Use import foo from 'foo' instead of const foo = require('foo') to import the package. You also need to put "type": "module" in your package.json and more. Follow the below guide.
If the package is used in an async context, you could use await import(…) from CommonJS instead of require(…).
Stay on the existing version of the package until you can move to ESM.

Git Submodules basic explanation

Why submodules?

In Git you can add a submodule to a repository. This is basically a repository embedded in your main repository. This can be very useful. A couple of usecases of submodules:

Separate big codebases into multiple repositories.

	# This is a sample build configuration for JavaScript.
	# Check our guides at https://confluence.atlassian.com/x/14UWN for more examples.
	# Only use spaces to indent your .yml configuration.
	# -----
	# You can specify a custom docker image from Docker Hub as your build environment.
	# Note variables start with `$` are repository variables added to bitbucket repo.
	image: node:12.18.2

	pipelines:
	branches:

	package main

	import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"log"
	"os"
	"runtime"

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