Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-21 Thread Brian May
Antoine Beaupré writes: > bam: do you want me to start working on that script or were you working > on this already? See https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/merge_requests/8 I personally find this easier to understand as we use the existing CVE list parser, although

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-20 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2018-06-15 10:27:45, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:34:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> Moritz Muehlenhoff writes: >> >> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:19:40PM +1000, Brian May wrote: [...] >> That generates a report of all packages that we need to check. I assume >> we

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-18 Thread Brian May
Brian May writes: > I will look at making a pull request tomorrow. The changes should be > reasonably straight forward syntax changes (e.g. use "!=" instead of > "<>" for the does not equal operator), work with Python3 in stretch, and > not require any additional dependancies (I think it only

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-17 Thread Brian May
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: >> Feel free to make a pull request, I don't think we have a specific >> dependency >> on Python 2 modules anywhere. But it might take a bit to get >> reviewed/deployed >> as it's not a high priority issue. > > To be kept in mind: whatever change is proposed for

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-17 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:23:15AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:21:55PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Brian May writes: > > > > > So we could write a script, lets say: > > > bin/list-potential-packages-affected-by-code-copies > > > > In investigating the

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 04:34:14PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Moritz Muehlenhoff writes: > > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:19:40PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >> "as I said in the mailing list discussion, I don't like the usage of the > >> undetermined tag... we use it to hide stuff we can't

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-15 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:21:55PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > Brian May writes: > > > So we could write a script, lets say: > > bin/list-potential-packages-affected-by-code-copies > > In investigating the possibility of this, I noticed the scripts in > lib/python/sectracker use legacy python

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-15 Thread Brian May
Brian May writes: > So we could write a script, lets say: > bin/list-potential-packages-affected-by-code-copies In investigating the possibility of this, I noticed the scripts in lib/python/sectracker use legacy python coding standards. I have updated these files on my local box to work with

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-15 Thread Brian May
Moritz Muehlenhoff writes: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:19:40PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> "as I said in the mailing list discussion, I don't like the usage of the >> undetermined tag... we use it to hide stuff we can't investigate under >> the carpet, I would much prefer that we put it as

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-13 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 05:19:40PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > "as I said in the mailing list discussion, I don't like the usage of the > undetermined tag... we use it to hide stuff we can't investigate under > the carpet, I would much prefer that we put it as directly > when it's the case, or

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-13 Thread Brian May
Antoine Beaupré writes: > https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/merge_requests/4 > > Comments are welcome there or here. Current comments on merge request, copied and pasted here, as I think relevant for the discussion here: Moritz Muehlenhoff @jmm commented 4 days

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-13 Thread Brian May
Brian May writes: > In any case, possibly better to leave feedback on the pull request: s/pull request/issue/ Sorry for any confusion. -- Brian May

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-13 Thread Brian May
Moritz Muehlenhoff writes: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:40:34PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >> 1. Tagging with / instead of . > > Nothing of those can automated. The basic point of is that > we lack data to make a proper assessment. > > The correct way to handle these is to triage >

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-12 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 05:40:34PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > 1. Tagging with / instead of . Nothing of those can automated. The basic point of is that we lack data to make a proper assessment. The correct way to handle these is to triage

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-12 Thread Brian May
Antoine Beaupré writes: > I've finalized a prototype during my research on this problem, which I > have detailed on GitLab, as it's really code that should be merged. It > would also benefit from wider attention considering it affects more than > LTS now. Anyways, the MR is here: > >

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-08 Thread Antoine Beaupré
I've finalized a prototype during my research on this problem, which I have detailed on GitLab, as it's really code that should be merged. It would also benefit from wider attention considering it affects more than LTS now. Anyways, the MR is here:

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-08 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2018-06-08 03:29:38, Brian May wrote: > Antoine Beaupré writes: > >> Right now, it seems that all scripts that hammer at those files do so >> with their own ad-hoc parsing code. Is that the recommended way of >> chopping those files up? Or is there a better parsing library out there? > > It

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-08 Thread Brian May
Antoine Beaupré writes: > Right now, it seems that all scripts that hammer at those files do so > with their own ad-hoc parsing code. Is that the recommended way of > chopping those files up? Or is there a better parsing library out there? It sounds like we really good do with a good parsing

Re: Dealing with renamed source packages during CVE triaging

2018-06-07 Thread Antoine Beaupré
Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but I've been looking at how to deal with renamed packages in CVE triaging again. When we last talked about this, we observed how we were sometimes missing packages during triage, e.g. `tiff3` that was present in wheezy. That's not an issue anymore since