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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2012 07:10:20 -0800
From: akuster <akuster@...sta.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Request for linux-distros@...openwall.org membership

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Kurt,

On 11/05/2012 10:09 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 11/05/2012 10:53 AM, Henri Salo wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:02:52PM +0530, Premchand Koneru
>> wrote:
>>> I recently joined the Montavista Security team and request 
>>> membership to thelinux-distros@...openwall.org  list, so that
>>> I may participate fully in reporting and fixing vulnerabilities
>>> in Montavista. Here is my GPG fingerprint:
>>> 
>>> pub   2048R/5DA060C7 2012-11-05 Key fingerprint = 7DF9 45B4
>>> 3116 8D5C D3C0  2A15 EADE D5B2 5DA0 60C7 uid Premchand
>>> Koneru<pkoneru@...sta.com <mailto:pkoneru@...sta.com>> sub
>>> 2048R/BE364B01 2012-11-05
>>> 
>>> Thank you for consideration.
> 
>> This is first time I heard about Montavista. Where is your
>> package- and bug-tracker? Does Montavista use CVE?
> 
>> - Henri Salo
> 
> 
> Also how do we confirm you are on the security team there? I can't 
> even find proof you work for Montavista (other than the email
> address) and I can't find any mention of a person called "Premchand
> Koneru" doing security work in the past.
> 
> I did manage to find a CVE page of sorts:
> 
> http://www.mvista.com/cve_vulnerabilities.php
> 
> For 2012 you appear to have fixed one Linux security flaw out of
> the 7 listed (the rest are OpenSSL/OpenSSH), so I'm not really sure
> why you would need access to distros@ if you aren't fixing Linux
> related security issues any ways?

I am not surprised that our list is behind. I did mention there would
be a 3 month delay in new postings back when I was trying to get
MontaVista back on the closed list which seemed acceptable at the
time. This delay seems excessive. I will ping my management again.

If you feel that MV should be dropped from the list-distros list, then
so be it.

I do realize this list is maintained by volunteers and today's rules
are based on previous emails (kinda hard me to follow).

I do hope the requirements listed at

http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros

will be update with "How to maintain membership" and "How to ack/nack
additional team members memberships".

Kind regards,
Armin



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