On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 04:51:30PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:
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> Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 07:13:06PM +0200, Loic Dachary wrote:
> >>> Well, we lost all the history :(
> >> I will upload the history back in munin-old
> >>> It's pretty useful to measure the impact of a new change.
> >>>
> >> I agree. It seems the structure of data / directories / html /
> >> templates changed with the newer version of munin and I was not
> >> able to get it to continue.
> >>>> I have performed a full backup of the maggie.gna.org host.
> >>> Hmm, where?
> >>>
> >>> maggie is also the compilation environment for the gnapgnap
> >>> packages (apt.gna.org) and I don't master that part - I'd like
> >>> have to keep access to there.
> >>>
> >> Funny you would say that : it's on tothere.tld
> >> /mnt/maggie.gna.vm.gnt/ from munin.gna.org
> >
> > I assume it's lost now? :/ I can't find it anymore.
> mount /dev/backup-2010-03-24/maggie.gna.vm.gnt /mnt/maggie.gna.vm.gnt
> 
> it's not always mounted. If you C-r the root bash history you'll find
> this line the next time.

Maybe we're not on the same box: munin.gna.org has no line like this
in .bash_history, and /dev/backup-2010-03-24 doesn't exist.


> > In other news, we need to upgrade the box as it's vulnerably to the
> >  "anybody can become root" kernel exploit from 2 days ago.
> >
> Is it for logged in user ? Or can it be exploited from the existing
> installed programs ?

Users need to run a custom executable (the exploit) to become root.
Normally we blocked all ways for users to run custom programs at Gna.


> > I'm not sure how to proceed safely, since this box is apparently
> > installed with Debian testing (?).  A fixed kernel is available in
> > unstable (version -23).
> Is there a backported kernel yet ?

There is a backported kernel for stable/lenny since a few hours ago,
but in this case we need to install the kernel from 'unstable', which
will enter testing/squeeze in a matter of days.

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Sylvain

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