Backporting of Discover/KNS fixes

Heiko Becker heiko.becker at kde.org
Sat Feb 19 12:07:53 GMT 2022


On Saturday, 19 February 2022 10:11:06 CET, Ben Cooksley wrote:
> 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

Exherbo already has 5.24.1/5.91.0 and while I don't have numbers, I suspect 
our Discover installations are not that frequent anyway, due to missing 
package kit support for our package manager and our technical target 
audience.

Regards,
Heiko


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