IMPORTANT: BOINC 8.0.0 release for Linux contains vulnerable liblzma

[Vitalii Koshura]

Hello everyone,

Please be informed that a couple of days ago it was found that liblzma, which is used to build BOINC Manager, was released with a severe vulnerability.

TL;DR

BOINC users are not affected, but just in case please update your BOINC 8.0.0 for Linux with the new 8.0.1 version: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/linux_install.php

Please keep in mind, BOINC 8.0.0 is still in alpha testing phase.

More details about this issue in my recent blog post: https://aenbleidd.blogspot.com/2024/04/boinc-release-800-and-liblzma.html

Best regards,

Vitalii Koshura