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  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldJellyfin over the internet
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    4 days ago

    And which one of those are actually vulnerabilities that are exploitable? First, yes ofc unauthenticated endpoints should be fixed, but with those there is no real damage to be done.

    If you know the media path then you can request a playback, and if you get the user ids then you can get all users. That’s more or less it.

    Good? No. But far from making it a poor choice exposing it.



  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldJellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released
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    20 days ago

    … and may also break compatibility with previous 10.Y releases if required for later cleanup work.

    If you read through the whole paragraph, it is clear that they mean the compatibility of previous jellyfin versions.

    Also, again:

    Note however that the 10.Y.Z release chain represents the “cleanup” of the codebase, so it should be accepted that 10.Y.Z breaks all compatibility,

    That means that the code is not cleaned up with that release.

    If you would release 11 before the code is considered cleaned up, you would basically break your own defined versioning convention. That is best decided by the active maintainers.


  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldJellyfin 10.11 RC1 Released
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    21 days ago

    Consider the 10.y.z simply to be 0.y.z and everything works out.

    Jellyfin inherited a lot of shitty code and architecture from emby. They simply cannot guarantee anything across patches until it is sorted out.

    imho much better then releasing major version after major version because the break stuff regularly.








  • Do you want to prevent brute forcing or do you want to prevent the attack getting in?

    If you want to prevent brute forcing then software like fail2ban helps a little, but this is only a IP based block, so with IPv6 this is not really helpfull against a real attack, since rotating IP addresses is trivial. But still can slow down the attacker. Also limiting the amount of sessions and auth tries does significantly slow down the attacker.

    If you just want to not worry about it set strong passwords, and when it is a multi user system where other ppl might access it, configure Public Key Auth so you can be sure the other users have strong passwords (or keys in this case) to authenticate.

    With strong passwords or keys it is basically impossible to brute force your way in with ssh.


  • ShortN0te@lemmy.mltoSelfhosted@lemmy.worldDo I really need a firewall for my server?
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    3 months ago

    You do not even need a port based firewall when the server is open on the internet.

    When you configure the software to not have unnecessary open ports over the internet connected interface then a port based firewall is providing zero additional security.

    A port based firewall has the benefit that you can lock everything down to the few ports you actually need, and do not have to worry about misconfigured software.

    For example, something like docker circumvents ufw anyway. And i know ppl that had open ports even tho they had ufw running.







  • A project ending as abandonware is always a possibility. One reason projects get abandoned is losing funding, which can be secured by using dual licensing and selling some features to businesses.

    That is not my point.

    Having a CE or OS version and an Enterprise Version can lead to conflict of interest. Do you add a feature to the OS Version or do you spend time on the Enterprise feature? There are a lot of examples, Emby is one, others are escaping me right now.

    There are other models that work well like paid support etc. Nonetheless i will stay away.