Backporting of Discover/KNS fixes

Anke Boersma demm at kaosx.us
Sat Feb 19 09:38:23 GMT 2022


KaOS received the emails, all patches and/or latest releases have been
applied.

Thanks,

Anke

On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 10:11 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.
>
> Thanks,
> Ben Cooksley
> KDE Sysadmin
>
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