Backporting of Discover/KNS fixes

Rik Mills rikmills at kde.org
Sat Feb 19 09:23:01 GMT 2022


On 19/02/2022 09:11, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> Dear Distributions,
> 
> It has recently come to my attention that some distributions have missed
> emails sent to this list recently regarding issues with Discover/KNS. As
> these issues are rather critical I am now requiring all distributions to
> explicitly acknowledge receipt of these emails and to declare the
> actions they have taken. As a reminder, end-user systems without these
> patches are participating in a distributed denial of service attack on
> KDE.org infrastructure.
> 
> The two emails which distributions need to keep in mind are:
>https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2022-February/001140.html
> <https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2022-February/001140.html>
>https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2022-February/001142.html
> <https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2022-February/001142.html>
> 
> These patches should be backported to all versions currently in support.
> 
> For those distributions that have already backported these patches -
> thank you and apologies for the further inconvenience regarding this.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin

Acknowledged. I will talk to the Ubuntu SRU people on Monday.

Rik

cc: Lukasz Zemczak from SRU Team



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