Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 8:29 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:59 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:45 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chris Murphy > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:28:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:59 AM Fabio Valentini > wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:45 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chris Murphy > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:59 AM Fabio Valentini wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:45 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chris Murphy > > wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM David Cantrell > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Similarly, a package with a

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:25:01 PM MST Neal Gompa wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:19:41 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Neal Gompa
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 2:23 PM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:19:41 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > > > But

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Sunday, February 16, 2020 12:19:41 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr > wrote: > > > > > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > > But the contra argument is, well what if there is an urgent security > > > fix? >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Chris Murphy
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 11:08 AM John M. Harris Jr wrote: > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > > But the contra argument is, well what if there is an urgent security fix? > > > > The repo metadata, I guess, needs some way of distinguishing urgent vs > >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Fabio Valentini
On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 7:45 PM Neal Gompa wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM David Cantrell > > wrote: > > > > > > Similarly, a package with a medium CVE NEW bugzilla would be orphaned > > > > after 4 > > > > reminders

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread Neal Gompa
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Chris Murphy wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM David Cantrell > wrote: > > > > Similarly, a package with a medium CVE NEW bugzilla would be orphaned > > > after 4 > > > reminders (after 9-12 weeks), retired at a point if still not CLOSED > > > after 4

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-16 Thread John M. Harris Jr
On Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:34:32 PM MST Chris Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM David Cantrell > wrote: > > > > > Similarly, a package with a medium CVE NEW bugzilla would be orphaned > > > after 4 reminders (after 9-12 weeks), retired at a point if still not > > > CLOSED

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-14 Thread Kevin Kofler
David Cantrell wrote: >> On 1/30/20 8:32 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: […] I have not actually written the lines you quoted, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala has. Kevin Kofler ___ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-13 Thread Chris Murphy
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:53 PM David Cantrell wrote: > > Similarly, a package with a medium CVE NEW bugzilla would be orphaned after > > 4 > > reminders (after 9-12 weeks), retired at a point if still not CLOSED after > > 4 months. > > > > With low severity, that is 6 reminders (after 15-18

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:39:05AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > > Maybe? > > The problem with this analysis is we don't know how many of these are > actual current security issues, and of those how many are > low impact > (because honestly low impact security issues should just be

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
> On 1/30/20 8:32 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Issues which are blocking on upstream, will eventually get resolved once > upstream figures out a solution in some time, maybe with subsequent rebases. Which is fine. Should Fedora in the meantime ship known vulnerable software? But the point, if I

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-13 Thread David Cantrell
> Hello, Fedora has an approved security policy since September 2018 [0]: > > > I have decided to have a look into this, since this has been approved more > than > a year ago and nothing ever happened since. Fedora has a very big pile of > open > CVE bugzillas [2]. > > There are several

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-03 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:46:55AM -0600, Richard Shaw wrote: > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... > > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager for > what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their packages. I found > the whole

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Sat, 1 Feb 2020 at 19:58, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> From >> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Package_maintainer_responsibilities/#_deal_with_reported_bugs_in_a_timely_manner >> : >> >> It is recommended that non-coder packagers should find >> co-maintainers who are

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-01 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 17:59, Robbie Harwood wrote: > Richard Shaw writes: > > > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... > > > > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager > > for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their > >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-01 Thread Ken Dreyer
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 3:59 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > Richard Shaw writes: > > > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... > > > > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager > > for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their > >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-02-01 Thread Michael Schwendt
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 15:47, Richard Shaw wrote: > > 4. I'm not a C/C++ programmer and certainly not a security expert. If I can > find a link to a fix for another distro, such as debian, I'll apply it but > more often than not there's nothing there when I look. I'll even file an > issue

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-31 Thread Kevin Kofler
Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > I didn't say RHEL completely ignores them. They are not fixed > asynchronously but we do fix them in the next regular minor release. Sometimes. Not always though. I have seen more than one security issue that we fixed very quickly in Fedora, but that was marked

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-31 Thread Przemek Klosowski via devel
On 1/29/20 10:09 PM, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: Do we want to continue the same condition as described here:

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-31 Thread Richard Shaw
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 4:58 PM Robbie Harwood wrote: > Richard Shaw writes: > > > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... > > > > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager > > for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their >

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-31 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > Ignoring low bugs also probably isn't a viable stragegy > > for EPEL, because that's a long life distro stream, and > > so won't automatically get low CVE fixes via a rebase > > in 6 months like we do in

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Robbie Harwood
Richard Shaw writes: > Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... > > 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager > for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their > packages. I found the whole ordeal rather stressful. Agreed, this

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Richard Shaw
Not replying to anyone in particular but to the thead as a whole... 1. Nothing in the packager introduction process prepares a packager for what to do when they get a CVE filed against one of their packages. I found the whole ordeal rather stressful. 2. The process is somewhat confusing with all

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 02:28:30PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > Ignoring low bugs also probably isn't a viable stragegy > > for EPEL, because that's a long life distro stream, and > > so won't automatically get low CVE fixes via a rebase > > in 6 months like we do in

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > On 1/30/20 8:32 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> I don't see how it is an improvement to close security fixes that are >> blocking on upstream (in)action as UPSTREAM, as opposed to keeping them >> open so that it is clear to everyone that they need to be fixed. >> > Issues

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Kevin Kofler
Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > Ignoring low bugs also probably isn't a viable stragegy > for EPEL, because that's a long life distro stream, and > so won't automatically get low CVE fixes via a rebase > in 6 months like we do in Fedora. So the CVE mountain > is even bigger for EPEL, and also more

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 11:20:48AM +, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:39:05AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > > Do we want to continue the same condition as described here: > > https://mivehind.net/2020/01/28/Fedora-has-too-many-security-bugs/ > > Maybe? > > The

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
On 1/30/20 4:11 PM, Vít Ondruch wrote: > > Dne 30. 01. 20 v 11:09 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:05:28AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: >>> Thank you for looking into this matter. >>> >>> >>> Dne 29. 01. 20 v 22:26 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): Hello, Fedora has an

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:40:57AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > On 1/30/20 3:19 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > >> Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y: > >> > >> severity CRITICAL/HIGH

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 08:39:05AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > Do we want to continue the same condition as described here: > https://mivehind.net/2020/01/28/Fedora-has-too-many-security-bugs/ Maybe? The problem with this analysis is we don't know how many of these are actual current

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 30. 01. 20 v 11:09 Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek napsal(a): > On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:05:28AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: >> Thank you for looking into this matter. >> >> >> Dne 29. 01. 20 v 22:26 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): >>> Hello, Fedora has an approved security policy since September 2018

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 10:05:28AM +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote: > Thank you for looking into this matter. > > > Dne 29. 01. 20 v 22:26 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): > > Hello, Fedora has an approved security policy since September 2018 [0]: > > > >> If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is currently

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Vít Ondruch
Thank you for looking into this matter. Dne 29. 01. 20 v 22:26 Miro Hrončok napsal(a): > Hello, Fedora has an approved security policy since September 2018 [0]: > >> If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is currently open >> against a package, or a security issue of lower severity has been

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-30 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:04:19PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 29. 01. 20 22:49, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > >>Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y: > >> > >>severity CRITICAL/HIGH MEDIUM

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
On 1/30/20 3:19 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y: >> >> severity CRITICAL/HIGH MEDIUM LOW >> X 2 4 6 >> Y

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Huzaifa Sidhpurwala
On 1/30/20 8:32 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Miro Hrončok wrote: >> My idea was that within half a year, it should be wither fixed or CLOSED >> as WONTFIX or UPSTREAM. If we don't agree, I'm completely fine making it >> 12 months or even ignore such bugs in the policy entirely. > > I don't see how

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miro Hrončok wrote: > My idea was that within half a year, it should be wither fixed or CLOSED > as WONTFIX or UPSTREAM. If we don't agree, I'm completely fine making it > 12 months or even ignore such bugs in the policy entirely. I don't see how it is an improvement to close security fixes that

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 29. 01. 20 22:49, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y: severity CRITICAL/HIGH MEDIUM LOW X 2 4 6 Y 2

Re: RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Richard W.M. Jones
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 10:26:56PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > Here is an initial (albeit randomly generated) proposal of X and Y: > > severity CRITICAL/HIGH MEDIUM LOW > X 2 4 6 > Y 2 4 6 In RHEL, low impact

RFC: Security policy adjustments to make it easier to implement and more friendly to maintainers

2020-01-29 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hello, Fedora has an approved security policy since September 2018 [0]: If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is currently open against a package, or a security issue of lower severity has been open for at least 6 months, four weeks before the branch point a procedure similar to