[netfilter-cvslog] r7007 - in trunk/homepage/xml: . security

pablo at netfilter.org pablo at netfilter.org
Wed Aug 8 15:08:05 CEST 2007


Author: pablo at netfilter.org
Date: 2007-08-08 15:08:04 +0200 (Wed, 08 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 7007

Modified:
   trunk/homepage/xml/layout.xml
   trunk/homepage/xml/news.xml
   trunk/homepage/xml/security/index.xml
Log:
kernel security announce discontinued


Modified: trunk/homepage/xml/layout.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/homepage/xml/layout.xml	2007-08-08 13:01:24 UTC (rev 7006)
+++ trunk/homepage/xml/layout.xml	2007-08-08 13:08:04 UTC (rev 7007)
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@
 			</tocentry>
 		</tocentry>
 		<tocentry page="news.xml" filename="news.html">
+			<tocentry id="toc-news-2007-08-08" href="/news.html#2007-08-08">
+				<title>2007-08-08: security announces</title>
+				<titleabbrev>security announces</titleabbrev>
+			</tocentry>
 			<tocentry id="toc-news-2007-08-07" href="/news.html#2007-08-07">
 				<title>2007-08-07: libnetfilter_queue release</title>
 				<titleabbrev>libnetfilter_queue release</titleabbrev>
@@ -237,16 +241,6 @@
 			</tocentry>
 		</tocentry>
 		<tocentry page="security/index.xml" dir="security" filename="index.html">
-			<tocentry page="security/2004-06-30-2.6-tcpoption.xml" filename="2004-06-30-2.6-tcpoption.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2003-08-01-nat-sack.xml" filename="2003-08-01-nat-sack.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2003-08-01-listadd.xml" filename="2003-08-01-listadd.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2002-12-03-ipq-pid-wrap.xml" filename="2002-12-03-ipq-pid-wrap.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2002-04-02-icmp-dnat.xml" filename="2002-04-02-icmp-dnat.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2002-02-25-irc-dcc-mask.xml" filename="2002-02-25-irc-dcc-mask.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2002-01-20-listadd.xml" filename="2002-01-20-listadd.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2001-09-26-mac.xml" filename="2001-09-26-mac.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2001-08-22-mirror.xml" filename="2001-08-22-mirror.html"/>
-			<tocentry page="security/2001-04-16-ftp.xml" filename="2001-04-16-ftp.html"/>
 		</tocentry>
 		<tocentry page="mailinglists.xml" filename="mailinglists.html">
 			<tocentry id="toc-list-rules" href="/mailinglists.html#list-rules">

Modified: trunk/homepage/xml/news.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/homepage/xml/news.xml	2007-08-08 13:01:24 UTC (rev 7006)
+++ trunk/homepage/xml/news.xml	2007-08-08 13:08:04 UTC (rev 7007)
@@ -15,6 +15,17 @@
 <section>
 <title>News &amp; Announcements</title>
 
+<section id="2007-08-08">
+<title>2007-Aug-08</title>
+<blockquote>
+<section>
+<title>Netfilter-related Linux kernel security updates</title>
+<para>Nowadays, Linux Kernel related security issues are handled through the <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/">-stable series</ulink>. Since the Netfilter project has part of his software in the Linux kernel, please do not expect to find updated kernel-related security announces in our <ulink url="security/index.html">security section</ulink>. That section will contain only userspace-related problems (i.e. those regarding libraries and tools).
+</para>
+</section>
+</blockquote>
+</section>
+
 <section id="2007-08-07">
 <title>2007-Aug-07</title>
 <blockquote>

Modified: trunk/homepage/xml/security/index.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/homepage/xml/security/index.xml	2007-08-08 13:01:24 UTC (rev 7006)
+++ trunk/homepage/xml/security/index.xml	2007-08-08 13:08:04 UTC (rev 7007)
@@ -5,21 +5,22 @@
 <webpage id="security" lang="en">
 
 <head>
-	<title>Security information by the netfilter/iptables project</title>
+	<title>Security information by the netfilter project</title>
 	<titleabbrev>Security Information</titleabbrev>
-	<summary>Security relevant information published by the netfilter/iptables project</summary>
+	<summary>Security relevant information published by the netfilter</summary>
 </head>
 
 <section id="sec-security">
 <title>Security Announcements</title>
 <para>
 Unfortunately, all software has bugs from time to time.  Software bugs can
-really hurt in case the software is security software.  This section of the
-netfilter/iptables homepage lists all netfilter-related security announcements
-since the beginning of the linux 2.4.x stable kernel series.
+really hurt in case the software is security software.  In this section we will
+only cover userspace security problems. For kernel related issues, please refer
+to <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/">Linux kernel
+changelog</ulink> files. Anyhow, we keep here old kernel security reports since linux 2.4.x for the record, but do not expect this section to be updated with
+kernel security issues.
 </para>
 
-
 <section>
 <title>Jun-30-2004: DoS vulnerability in 2.6.x tcp option parser</title>
 <itemizedlist mark="bullet">




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