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Arch isn't affected afaik, as it specifically targeted Debian and RPM. Also, sshd isn't linked against liblzma (or something along those lines). And I hope that's true, because otherwise, I had a backdoor on a public system for over a month.
https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/
Yeah but the backdoor does not work on Arch (as far as we currently know). It relies on a linking of libraries that Arch doesnt do by default.