[Mageia-sysadm] [forums-discuss] Re: updating sysadmin privileges in forum config

Mon Mar 26 16:14:18 CEST 2012

On 26/03/12 15:43, Marja van Waes wrote:
+> On 26/03/12 08:58, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+>>
+>> We were not talking about a simple software package for the
+>> distribution (although this is certainly an option). We were talking
+>> about the Mageia forums and what to do with the needed update to the
+>> forum software, and, yes, the 2 official updates of phpBB3 which we
+>> missed include several security fixes.
+>>
+> Please be as kind as to open bug reports for them, including the links 
+> to the security issues that are solved by those updates.
+>
+> We've had a lot of security bug reports so far, see 
+> https://bugs.mageia.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL+CVE because many 
+> of our packagers missed the news about security fixes or were too busy 
+> to take proper action. Luckily some people took the trouble to open 
+> reports for them, that really helps to get the fixes done by either 
+> the maintainers of the packages involved or by others who are willing 
+> to help.
+
+Sorry, I'm not referring to all of those bugs, but to, for instance, all 
+those reported by David Walser.
+
+Regards,
+Marja
+