Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:40:50 +0000 From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit Message-ID: <CAC8HS2Gt6mLjk_KH=TPgcZFJbRo7tUBf1m4RR2bpVQ-97Kw-jg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2GBmkAFE-n00VRYFr=2F0vknjFHNr6OHUK=pHGwbJdqTw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAC8HS2GBmkAFE-n00VRYFr=2F0vknjFHNr6OHUK=pHGwbJdqTw@mail.gmail.com>
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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@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.) -- Simon L. B. Nielsen Hat: clusteradm
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