Monthly Archives: February 2018

Mageia Infrastructure planned outage

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

In case you missed the announcement on all the mailing lists, Mageia infrastructure will be shut down for scheduled maintenance beginning on: Tuesday February 27th, from  around 10.00 UTC That means Forums, Wiki, Bugzilla, Mailing lists, website (www.mageia.org) and the buildsystem … Continue reading →

Posted in sysadmin | 9 Comments

Weekly roundup 2018 – Weeks 7 & 8

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

Before we get in to the roundup, here’s a huge thank-you to the Mageians who helped with all the password resets after our security problem reported last week. Everything is mostly sorted now, but please contact the forum or the discuss … Continue reading →

Posted in QA, security, Weekly roundup | 4 Comments

Mageia Identity Security Breach

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Donald Stewart

A user was able to gain access to our LDAP database and has published the email addresses and names, as well as apparent password hashes, of anyone who has signed up to identity.mageia.org. However, the published hashes do not match those on record, and all capitalisation … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | 11 Comments

Spectre-Meltdown mitigation update

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

This update comes to us courtesy of tmb, our kernel magician: Since we released 4.14.18 yesterday, we now are in pretty good shape with the mitigations, especially on x86_64. We now have bits in place for Spectre v1, v2 and Meltdown. … Continue reading →

Posted in security | 13 Comments

Fosdem 2018 – and a very little roundup

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Patricia Fraser

Before we get to FOSDEM, an important update came through in the last few hours – this follows tmb’s explanation from the last roundup: MGASA-2018-0125 – Updated kernel packages fix security vulnerabilities Publication date: 11 Feb 2018 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0125.html Type: security … Continue reading →

Posted in events, security, Weekly roundup | 8 Comments