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

[Marja van Waes]

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