Important Etherpad release [LWN.net]

Several security vulnerabilities were found in Etherpad and version 1.6.4 has been released with fixes. The vulnerabilities include arbitrary code execution and information disclosure. Site admins are urged to update Etherpad to 1.6.4 as soon as possible.

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Important Etherpad release

Posted Apr 9, 2018 22:52 UTC (Mon) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (2 responses)

FYI: Etherpad is a text editor, their description is below:

Etherpad is a really-real time collaborative editor scalable to thousands of simultanious real time users. Unlike all other collaborative tools Etherpad provides full fidelity data export and portability making it fully GDPR compliant.

Important Etherpad release

Posted Apr 10, 2018 0:52 UTC (Tue) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link]

Thanks. I clicked around to discover this information, but foolishly did not circle back to add it here. Kudos to you.

Important Etherpad release

Posted Apr 10, 2018 7:30 UTC (Tue) by OttoErickson (guest, #122996) [Link]

It may not be pretty but it can be really useful for development teams that are geographically distributed.