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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

How to convert m4a files to mp3, preserving bitrate and id3 tags using ffmpeg

Prerequisites

ffmpeg
cygwin (on windows)

Commands

cd /path/to/m4a/files
mkdir out
for f in *.m4a; do

	#!/usr/bin/env python3

	"""
	SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
	Copyright © 2021 [email protected]


	* Input file is an info.json (with comments) that yt-dlp (https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) wrote
	* Change FIELDS according to your needs

	# Install it with Homebrew.
	brew install rename

	# Replace "oldstring" with "newstring" with files in the current directory.
	rename -s oldstring newstring *

	# Do the same thing, but recursively.
	rename -s oldstring newstring */