FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit

[Marcelo Gondim]

Em 06/01/13 18:40, Simon L. B. Nielsen escreveu:
> Hey,
>
> tl;dr Wiki is back, and everybody with account need to reset their password.
>
> On 4 January 2013 22:38, Simon L. B. Nielsen <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Due to a security issue in the moinmoin wiki software, the FreeBSD
>> wiki will be offline for a bit. I do not yet know if the issue
>> actually has been exploited in the FreeBSD wiki (haven't had the time
>> yet to examine it), but I took the wiki down just in case.
>>
>> Note that even if the software was compromised, it was considered
>> untrusted from the start and as such heavily sandboxed (including
>> jailed) to keep it away from any sensitive FreeBSD.org parts, so there
>> is absolutely no reason to believe a compromise would go any further
>> than the wiki itself.
>>
>> I hope to have the wiki back within 24 hours, assuming not too much
>> gets in the way.
>>
>> For further reference see: http://moinmo.in/SecurityFixes and
>> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.announce/1754 .
>>
>> PS. this is entirely unrelated to the 2012 November FreeBSD.org compromise.
> The wiki is back now.
>
> Looking at logs it there were people attempting to exploit this back
> in July but I do not think they actually succeeded. It seemed to
> mostly automated bot and not a target attempt.
>
> The wiki has been reinstalled from scratch and users and pages were
> copied. As I did a very selective copy it's entirely possible I made
> the wiki unhappy, so let me know if you see issues.
>
> Just to be extra safe I have reset all password, so everybody will
> need need to use the standard account recovery process to set a new
> password.
>
> On a side note we have ~23000 user accounts and had 26000 empty pages
> mostly caused by spammers, so someone(tm) will likely need to find a
> way to change how we handle wiki user accounts to fix this.
>
> PS. only reason I could see that they tried back in July was that I
> found out I had forgotten to set up log rotation, so the wiki logfile
> was over 3GB :-). (It was the internal log file which doesn't contain
> user IP's so privacy part isn't really an issue.)
>
Thanks and congratulations for your job!

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