A security issue fixed upstream in e2guardian has been announced on December 23: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/12/23/2 Mageia 8 is also affected.
Status comment: (none) => Patch available from upstreamWhiteboard: (none) => MGA8TOO
Fixed in mga8 src: - e2guardian-5.3.4-1.1.mga8
CC: (none) => mageia
Thank you NicolasL for fixing this in Cauldron so quickly. It would be odd not to assign the bug to you. However, CC'ing DavidG (registered pkger) who might want to carry the update forward.
CC: mageia => geiger.david68210Assignee: bugsquad => mageia
Assignee: mageia => qa-bugsCC: (none) => mageiaStatus comment: Patch available from upstream => (none)Whiteboard: MGA8TOO => (none)Version: Cauldron => 8
MGA8-64 Plasma on Lenvo B50 in Dutch No installation issues, installed also e2guardian-children-blacklists to get more preconfigured items. Found some guidance from https://www.linux.com/training-tutorials/filter-content-your-home-network-e2guardian/ Looked in the config files and uncommented the line .Include</etc/e2guardian/lists/blacklists/adult/domains> in the file /etc/e2guardian/lists/bannedsitelist It works with squid, so at CLI: # systemctl start squid [root@mach5 ~]# systemctl -l status squid ● squid.service - Squid Web Proxy Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/squid.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-12-27 10:52:43 CET; 3s ago Docs: man:squid(8) Process: 14320 ExecStartPre=/usr/sbin/squid --foreground -z -F (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 14324 (squid) Tasks: 4 (limit: 9397) Memory: 18.7M CPU: 108ms CGroup: /system.slice/squid.service ├─14324 /usr/sbin/squid --foreground -sYC ├─14326 (squid-1) --kid squid-1 --foreground -sYC ├─14327 (logfile-daemon) /var/log/squid/access.log └─14328 (pinger) dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Using Least Load store dir selection dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Set Current Directory to /var/spool/squid dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Finished loading MIME types and icons. dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: HTCP Disabled. dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Pinger socket opened on FD 14 dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Squid plugin modules loaded: 0 dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Adaptation support is off. dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: Accepting HTTP Socket connections at local=[::]:3128 remote=[::] FD 12 flags=9 dec 27 10:52:43 mach5.hviaene.thuis systemd[1]: Started Squid Web Proxy Server. dec 27 10:52:44 mach5.hviaene.thuis squid[14326]: storeLateRelease: released 0 objects changed the proxy setings in firefox # systemctl start e2guardian [root@mach5 ~]# systemctl -l status e2guardian ● e2guardian.service - E2guardian Web Content Filter Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/e2guardian.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: active (running) since Mon 2021-12-27 10:53:42 CET; 3s ago Process: 14383 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/e2guardian (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 14384 (e2guardian) Tasks: 504 (limit: 9397) Memory: 32.3M CPU: 49ms CGroup: /system.slice/e2guardian.service └─14384 /usr/sbin/e2guardian dec 27 10:53:42 mach5.hviaene.thuis systemd[1]: Starting E2guardian Web Content Filter... dec 27 10:53:42 mach5.hviaene.thuis systemd[1]: e2guardian.service: Failed to parse PID from file /run/e2guardian.pid: Invalid argument dec 27 10:53:42 mach5.hviaene.thuis e2guardian[14384]: Started successfully. dec 27 10:53:42 mach5.hviaene.thuis systemd[1]: Started E2guardian Web Content Filter. Pointed firefox to some nasty site and got blocked, so i works OK.
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OKCC: (none) => herman.viaene
Validating.
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugsKeywords: (none) => validated_update
Keywords: (none) => advisoryCC: (none) => davidwhodgins
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0594.html
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED