[Scons-dev] Wiki down again

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Fri Jun 5 10:01:06 EDT 2015


Anatoly,

I've sent out a separate email about the wiki.

I'll see if I can get any further info on the security issue and pass that
along to you.

-Bill

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 6:05 PM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Who to contact to get all the details related to the Pair problems
> with DoS attacks?
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:01 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
> > I don't have the time/energy/desire to continue working on a system that
> is
> > unsustainable for us, and seems to be getting more so.  If you'd like to
> > push on it, feel free.
> >
> > -- Gary
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 8:25 AM, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Can they be more accurate where exactly the vulnerability is? IIRC we
> >> have 1.9.8 version (latest) installed, so if there is an exploit, the
> >> upstream should be notified too.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >> > Pair said it was an exploited attack on the wiki script itself this
> >> > time,
> >> > which is worse.  Usually it's "just" excessive load due to spammers
> >> > trying
> >> > to create pages, which is basically a DoS.
> >> >
> >> > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 3:13 AM, anatoly techtonik <
> techtonik at gmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 7:56 PM, William Blevins <
> wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >> > Wiki is down again due to invalid permissions.  I assume more DOS
> >> >> > attacks.
> >> >> > We should consider changing providers or something...
> >> >>
> >> >> First, let's have some proof that it is DOS attack. Do you have
> access
> >> >> to logs and
> >> >> statistics?
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> anatoly t.
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Gary
> >> >
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> >>
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