Category Archives: security

PwnKit (polkit’s pkexec exploit) – CVE-2021-4034

Posted on February 7, 2022 by Filip Komar

The update fixing the issue for Mageia 8 was released Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:31 UTC (05:31 EST). For anyone still running Mageia 7 (or older releases), the recommendation is … As root run “chmod 0755 /usr/bin/pkexec”.That will mean pkexec … Continue reading →

Posted in Mageia, QA, security, Updates | 1 Comment

IRC channels migration

Posted on June 19, 2021 by papoteur

Since the start of the Mageia.Org project we have used several IRC channels as discussion rooms. The main advantage of this technology is that anyone can get in contact with us without any registration beforehand. Those channels were hosted on … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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