Fedora Systems that were Updated

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 25 22:41:33 UTC 2008


Michael Semcheski wrote:
> I've got six Fedora 8 and two Fedora 9 systems.  I was on vacation
> while the whole security incident happened and the announcement went
> out not to update the systems.  I guess that announcement got lost in
> the mail.  When I got back, I had a ton of email that I was trying to
> get through, and I saw that there were updates available for the F8
> and F9 systems.  I applied the updates, then saw that there might be
> an issue.
> 
> I'm not trying to be overly paranoid, I'm trying to be just paranoid
> enough.  I'd prefer not to have to take any drastic corrective
> actions, but I will if I need to.
> 
> Should I rebuild all those systems?  I get the sense that there were
> no packages altered.  I'm not running a financial institution.  I do
> keep tabs on what these machines are up to, but its not my sole, or
> even primary concern.

As per the last announcement, no Fedora packages have been (knowingly) 
altered. So shouldn't be necessary.

Rahul




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