Attention about the Fedora Magazine article that elaborates this case: The article contained misleading information and still indicates misleading points after its update: If you have any F40 - including Beta - your “testing” branches are enabled by default: this means, any F40 has to be assumed to be affected and thus needs to follow the advice for mitigation below (please read the update 3 below). Communications between development and the magazine unfortunately is broken at the moment. The x...
AFAIK it‘s better to use rpm -q xz xz-libs (copied from the forum replies) to avoid running xz itself just in case the affected version is already installed
AFAIK it‘s better to use
rpm -q xz xz-libs
(copied from the forum replies) to avoid runningxz
itself just in case the affected version is already installed