Hey, tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password.
On 4 January 2013 22:38, Simon L. B. Nielsen <si...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Due to a security issue in the moinmoin wiki software, the FreeBSD > wiki will be offline for a bit. I do not yet know if the issue > actually has been exploited in the FreeBSD wiki (haven't had the time > yet to examine it), but I took the wiki down just in case. > > Note that even if the software was compromised, it was considered > untrusted from the start and as such heavily sandboxed (including > jailed) to keep it away from any sensitive FreeBSD.org parts, so there > is absolutely no reason to believe a compromise would go any further > than the wiki itself. > > I hope to have the wiki back within 24 hours, assuming not too much > gets in the way. > > For further reference see: http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes and > http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1754 . > > PS. this is entirely unrelated to the 2012 November FreeBSD.org compromise. The wiki is back now. Looking at logs it there were people attempting to exploit this back in July but I do not think they actually succeeded. It seemed to mostly automated bot and not a target attempt. The wiki has been reinstalled from scratch and users and pages were copied. As I did a very selective copy it's entirely possible I made the wiki unhappy, so let me know if you see issues. Just to be extra safe I have reset all password, so everybody will need need to use the standard account recovery process to set a new password. On a side note we have ~23000 user accounts and had 26000 empty pages mostly caused by spammers, so someone(tm) will likely need to find a way to change how we handle wiki user accounts to fix this. PS. only reason I could see that they tried back in July was that I found out I had forgotten to set up log rotation, so the wiki logfile was over 3GB :-). (It was the internal log file which doesn't contain user IP's so privacy part isn't really an issue.) -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: clusteradm _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
