Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2013 19:34:39 -0200 From: Marcelo Gondim <gondim@bsdinfo.com.br> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD wiki offline for a bit Message-ID: <50E9EDEF.7090708@bsdinfo.com.br> In-Reply-To: <CAC8HS2Gt6mLjk_KH=TPgcZFJbRo7tUBf1m4RR2bpVQ-97Kw-jg@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAC8HS2GBmkAFE-n00VRYFr=2F0vknjFHNr6OHUK=pHGwbJdqTw@mail.gmail.com> <CAC8HS2Gt6mLjk_KH=TPgcZFJbRo7tUBf1m4RR2bpVQ-97Kw-jg@mail.gmail.com>
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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@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! []'s Gondim http://www.bsdinfo.com.br
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