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Re: Linux kernel CVEs not mentioned on oss-security
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 12:18:38 -0600
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 11:31 AM, Bob Friesenhahn < bfriesen () simple dallas tx us> wrote:
On Tue, 26 Sep 2017, Agostino Sarubbo wrote: This certainly does not answer to the original question, but upstreamshould consider to do something like ffmpeg does here: https://www.ffmpeg.org/security.html I guess this would be benefit for all.It is incredibly difficult for most non-commercial upstreams to do this since they have limited manpower, they are not informed of all the applicable CVEs, and the CVE information received is essentially hearsay, received from unknown/unverifiable sources. I am thinking that it is best for most non-commercial upstreams to not mention CVEs at all.
Uhm. Where to begin. Ok, well for one thing just because we can't have 100% perfect coverage doesn't mean we should simply give up. Also CVE's aren't "hearsay", they are claims based, with evidence being needed (the stronger the claim, the more likely you are to get a CVE), especially in the open source world where I typically require a link to either the vuln code, or the code patch in order to give a CVE to something (if you can't tell me what code is vuln, in open source, then chances are you need to understand the vuln more before we CVE it up, exceptions of course can be made, e.g. when someone has a reproducer that works reliably). This is also why I've been pushing for a JSON format so we have better meta data in CVE, for things like affected projects/product so people can much more easily monitor what they do care about. It's not done yet but we are making progress.
If someone (e.g. with identity 'bugmeister () abcd cn') informs me (an upsteam maintainer) that some particular bug has been assigned a particular CVE then how can I know that to be a fact?
You can check the CVE Database? There is the official MITRE one: cve.mitre.org and the DWF for Open Source (and yes, I lag in submissions to MITRE) at https://github.com/distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-CVE-Database/ in both cases the CVEs will have reference link(s) that ideally point to the upstream making it easy to match up.
Bob -- Bob Friesenhahn bfriesen () simple dallas tx us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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- Re: Linux kernel CVEs not mentioned on oss-security Kurt Seifried (Sep 26)
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