check that the running kernel release matches your distribution patch level (for example, compare the output of uname -r with the installed kernel package version)
Older versions, NS7 and NS6, are not affected.
Revert the Rocky Linux 9 mitigation
If you applied the Rocky Linux mitigation procedure[2], which adds a kernel boot parameter, it is now safe to remove it.
Just to double check, I thought only Rocky Linux based systems are officially supported? All other Linux flavors are not officially supported and are ‘It may work but use at your own risk’?
If you want, sooner or later, have access to paid support (subscription), yes.
Otherwise, the link @mrmarkuz provided above contain supported distros that currently are not answered “We won’t help you in any way” into this community.
That is a bit frustrating, for Nethesis states that the community supports the other distro’s. I believe it is not up to Nethesis to state that, but ‘use your distro of choice at your own risk, and feel free to ask questions on the forums, but no guarantees to get an answer for it is best effort based’. e.g. see many unswered questions. The forums are not the same as ‘a community’, hence my post on ‘the fun is gone’. There are virtually only technical questions on the forums. Nothing to do with community anymore.
This does NOT mean I personally do not appreciate and recognise all the efforts from Nethesis staff individually. I very much do so, but every time a ‘sensitive topic’ is touched, the nervous vibes start kicking in.
And do not take it personally, I am talking about the role, the ‘community manager’ role is obsolete. Many Nethesis staff (off and on) are acting as a liason bewteen forum users and Nethesis, and that works in this moment in time, but not even try to managing a community.
It seems that for every non technical issue, an extra alinea is added to some paperwork to validate and avoid any meaningfull conversation or interaction with forum users.
So the community is dead, long live the support forums.
I read the manual sentence “Linux distributions and versions with NethServer community support” as meaning “you can find support for those distributions in the NethServer community”, and this forum is where that community meets.
I agree that the presence and quality of community support depends on volunteers’ work and personal commitment, and that this may change over time. So we can probably improve that sentence to make the distinction clearer. For example: “NS8 is also compatible with Debian and EL clone distributions, and you may find support in the community forum”.
There are many ways to contribute. Everyone can jump in and donate their 2 cents: it is a personal choice.
I think the community manager role changes as the community evolves over time, but what always matters is the quality of the posts. Every single word written here remains and helps shape the community. In the end, we are the authors of this story, not only the community manager.
Nethesis and RedHat have both confirmed that NS7 (or CentOS7, on which it’s based) are unaffected by this vuln, so there’s no apparent reason to be running random shell scripts to “confirm” what’s already known.