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From: 面和毅 <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 1:10 AM
To: SCAP Security Guide
Subject: Re: CentOS CESA OVAL file

Dear Shawn-san,

> CIS maintains their content outside of the CentOS community and has no
> relation with the SCAP Security Guide project. You'd have to check with CIS
> about their baselines.

Sorry, I posted this question to wrong ML. I'll ask the question to CIS ML.

> Not sure anyone has asked before. Generally lack of a license means default
> copyright laws apply... no reproduction/distribution/derivative works.
> Clearly that's not the Red Hat way and something that should get cleared up.
>
> Consider emailing [email protected] to get an official answer.
>

Thanks. I'll ask to the ML for getting an official answer.

> You'll also want to review what the CentOS team had to say about their CVE
> process. They make no claims their patches align to Red Hat CVEs -- which is
> why the Red Hat OVAL feed does not support scanning of CentOS hosts. You may
> be giving users a very false sense of security. Even more so for regulated
> environments (who would actually be checking for CVEs).
>
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-May/143094.html
>

Thanks for the information. I understood the CentOS team and CVE relation.
I respect that Red Hat Security team are keeping their distro as secure.
I'll add several comments for CentOS security issues when I put several
documents/files on my github.

Kind Regards,

OMO
2017-11-16 11:00 GMT+09:00 Shawn Wells <[email protected]>:
>
>
> On 11/15/17 8:08 PM, 面和毅 wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I'm writing openscap article for Web magazine(ThinkIT/Japan)
> , then I found CentOS OVAL file's CESA-2017:XX is not
> included on it.
>
> https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/download/5.11.1/compliance/centos_linux_7.xml
>
> Does somebody know how is the status for the xml file?
>
>
> CIS maintains their content outside of the CentOS community and has no
> relation with the SCAP Security Guide project. You'd have to check with CIS
> about their baselines.
>
> I wish to update it if it will not be released, but before do it
> I just want to know is there any reason to stop to develop the xml file.
>
> What's your goal? Would the SSG CentOS content work, or are you looking to
> develop something with CIS (they are two different communities)?
>
> Also, I modified Red Hat OVAL file for CentOS 7.
> But I guess there is some problem if I publish it
> on my github, right?
>
> https://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/
>
> Not sure anyone has asked before. Generally lack of a license means default
> copyright laws apply... no reproduction/distribution/derivative works.
> Clearly that's not the Red Hat way and something that should get cleared up.
>
> Consider emailing [email protected] to get an official answer.
>
> You'll also want to review what the CentOS team had to say about their CVE
> process. They make no claims their patches align to Red Hat CVEs -- which is
> why the Red Hat OVAL feed does not support scanning of CentOS hosts. You may
> be giving users a very false sense of security. Even more so for regulated
> environments (who would actually be checking for CVEs).
>
> https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2014-May/143094.html
>
>
>
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