Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread Carl George
> Q3) Does this indicate that only the latest CentOS (minor) release can > be considered "secure" or "patched"? Yes. Security errata for previous Enterprise Linux minor releases are a Red Hat product called Extended Update Support (EUS) [0]. CentOS doesn't build EUS updates. CentOS point releas

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread Leon Fauster via CentOS
Am 05.08.20 um 17:55 schrieb Johnny Hughes: On 8/5/20 10:45 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: On 05/08/2020 16:49, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 8/5/20 1:05 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: On 04/08/2020 23:50, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: Q5) If the answer to the last question is

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread centos
On 05/08/2020 17:55, Johnny Hughes wrote: Having said all this: maybe there is some deeper problem here, because of that pattern of missing announce e-mails that correspond with packages that differ in the final version number with respect to the upstream package. Or is this just a coincidence?

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/5/20 10:45 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > On 05/08/2020 16:49, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 8/5/20 1:05 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: >>> On 04/08/2020 23:50, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: > Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be >>

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread centos
On 05/08/2020 16:49, Johnny Hughes wrote: On 8/5/20 1:05 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: On 04/08/2020 23:50, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such a resource? CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If y

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-05 Thread Johnny Hughes
On 8/5/20 1:05 AM, cen...@niob.at wrote: > On 04/08/2020 23:50, Jon Pruente wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: >> >>> Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such >>> a resource? >>> >> CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If you need it then you should

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-04 Thread centos
On 04/08/2020 23:50, Jon Pruente wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such a resource? CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If you need it then you should either buy RHEL, or deal with putting together your own se

Re: [CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-04 Thread Jon Pruente
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 11:34 AM wrote: > Q5) If the answer to the last question is "no": shouldn't there be such > a resource? > CentOS doesn't publish security errata. If you need it then you should either buy RHEL, or deal with putting together your own set up with something like http://cefs.st

[CentOS] CentOS Security Advisories OVAL feed??

2020-08-04 Thread centos
Dear List, I have spent some time playing around with oscap and the RHEL OVAL feed (https://www.redhat.com/security/data/oval/v2/RHEL8/, also check Chapter 16 of the RHEL 8 Design Guide). Because I could not find an existing OVAL file for CentOS, I downloaded one of the RHEL8 files and managed

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > I don't want to cause any trouble here, but what does this > have to do with generating advisory information that is > provided by the vendor? ... if you won't acknowledge the landmines, you get blown up, eventually, I hear > I believe this fe

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
> -Original Message- > From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On > Behalf Of R P Herrold > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 5:37 PM > To: CentOS mailing list > Subject: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories > > On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > I assume you mean this? > http://www.redhat.com/legal/legal_statement.html That is an assumption you make, all right --- that page does not state it is exhaustive, however ... > What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that > defines wha

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories What I mean is, is there a specific Red Hat web page that defines what is acceptable and what is not? Joshua Bahnsen -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Joshua Bahnsen Sent

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"? Joshua Bahnsen -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Wednesday, June 17,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
What exactly do you mean by "breaching the rhn aup's"? Joshua Bahnsen -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Karanbir Singh Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 3:59 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS]

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > I believe that's where I am seeing the biggest discrepancy. Has there been > any discussion to put the advisory data in an updateinfo.xml form for use > with the yum-security plugin? yes, its come up a few times, there has been some work done on it as well, however there

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
To: centos@centos.org Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories On 06/17/2009 09:56 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > "Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there, RHBAs just > haven't been announced for 4 - there's no other appalling reason I could > th

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
> The tricky situation is also for the updates when a new iso set is > released, eg 5.2 -> 5.3, upstream tend to publish a report for each > package that is out there, we havent done that 'traditionally'. Given > time and resources, I am sure we can revisit that, if anyone is really > intereste

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 06/17/2009 09:56 AM, Ralph Angenendt wrote: > "Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there, RHBAs just > haven't been announced for 4 - there's no other appalling reason I could > think of at the moment :) with the new process's going in - that should change. > I'm not sure about

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-17 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > That's really my question. Is there any particular reason why not all > Red Hat advisories (RHEA, RHBA and RHSA) have a CentOS counterpart? Is > this due to time constraints, demand, or some other legal reason? Ah. "Historical Reasons", probably. All RHSAs should be there,

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-16 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
entOS security advisories Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > I have been looking at the security advisories provided here: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ > > It appears that there is not a 1:1 correlation between advisories > listed here and advisories listed

Re: [CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-16 Thread Ralph Angenendt
Joshua Bahnsen wrote: > I have been looking at the security advisories provided here: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ > > It appears that there is not a 1:1 correlation between advisories > listed here and advisories listed by Red Hat: > > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata >

[CentOS] CentOS security advisories

2009-06-15 Thread Joshua Bahnsen
I have been looking at the security advisories provided here: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/ It appears that there is not a 1:1 correlation between advisories listed here and advisories listed by Red Hat: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata Is there a specific reason for this? Al