[Phpgroupware-users] Savannah

[Dave Hall]

Hi all,

For this of you who don't know - savannah is down.  The following is an
announcement posted on the savannah website:

<statement>

On December 1st, 2003, we discovered that the "Savannah" system, which
is maintained by the Free Software Foundation and provides CVS and
development services to the GNU project and other Free Software
projects, was compromised at circa November 2nd, 2003.

The compromise seems to be of the same nature as the recent attacks on
Debian project servers; the attacker seemed to operate identically.
However, this incident was distinctly different from the modus operandi
we found in the attacks on our FTP server in August 2003. We have also
confirmed that an unauthorized party gained root access and installed a
root-kit ("SucKIT") on November 2nd, 2003.

In the interest of continuing cooperation and in helping to improve
security for all essential Free Software infrastructure, and despite
important philosophical differences, we are working closely with Debian
project members to find the perpetrators and to secure essential Free
Software infrastructure for the future. We hope to have future joint
announcements that discuss a unified strategy for addressing these problems.

For the moment, we are installing replacement hardware for the Savannah
system, and we will begin restoring the Savannah software this week.
Initially, there will be some security related changes which may be
inconvenient for our developers. We will try to ease these as we find
secure ways to do so. We are in particular researching ways to ensure
secured authentication of the source code trees stored on the system.

We will send more detailed announcements about efforts to verify the
authenticity of the source code hosted on Savannah, and how the
community can help in that effort once we've brought the system back online.

We hope to have at least minimal services back up by Friday 5 December
2003. 
</statement>

We will try to keep you posted.  Sorry for the inconvience, but this is
out of our control.

I will try to find a current cvs snapshot which we can post on our
website for those of you wishing to update your install.

Cheers

Dave

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