Fedora confirms: Our servers were breached

[Juha-Matti Laurio]

New information about the "important infrastructure issue" affecting to Fedora Project has been released today.

Mr. Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader has posted an announcement about the facts, including:

"One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing Fedora packages."

More information available at
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00012.html
and
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1130

Juha-Matti

[Dragos Ruiu]

On 22-Aug-08, at 7:41 AM, Juha-Matti Laurio wrote:
> New information about the "important infrastructure issue" affecting
> to Fedora Project has been released today.
> Mr. Paul W. Frields, Fedora Project Leader has posted an
> announcement about the facts, including:
> "One of the compromised Fedora servers was a system used for signing
> Fedora packages."
> More information available at
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg00012.html
> and
> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1130

It's ok, only a small number of architectures were affected:

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0855.html

You only have something to worry about if you have some x86 boxes. :-)

cheers,
--dr

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