Backporting of Discover/KNS fixes

Neal Gompa ngompa13 at gmail.com
Sat Feb 19 09:44:33 GMT 2022


On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 4:11 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> 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/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.
>

Acknowledged from the Fedora side. I believe we'll be covered with
F35+ and EL9, but we'll check for sure for those platforms and make
sure this is squared away for EL8 and F34.

cc: Troy Dawson, Rex Dieter, Marc Deop.



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