On 07/31/2018 08:33 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> 1. If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is open against a package >> in Fedora-X and by the time X is EOL and the issue is not addressed, >> proactively remove the package from X+1 >> 2. If a MODERATE or LOW security issue is open against a package in >> Fedora -X and by the time X+! is EOL, the issue is not addressed, remove >> it from X+2 > > I don't think this is practical, we'll lose half the distro (are at least > large chunks). > > Initially, such a proposal may be possible if generally limited to leaf > packages. >
So, i did some analysis of the number of packages which would be actually removed if we allowed this policy. I generated a list of open CVE bugs against X-2 which in this case is Fedora-26 and i got the following list: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&keywords=SecurityTracking%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=9198136&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced&version=26 If you extract the list of components ,it yields 57 unique components. out of that components like xorg-server etc would probably be in the critical list. So overall, i dont think its a big problem imo. Theoretically if there is an FTBS, the maintainer would definitely want to do something to fix this. Maybe a lot of these bugs are not really applicable or a rebase already fixed them, so all that is required is to close the bug with an approproate explanation. -- Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Product Security Team _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/7X4LIFJD7NTJN4A4Z3JYJPI43SBL7RGA/
