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Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 14:44:00 -0700
From: Kohsuke Kawaguchi <kk@...suke.org>
To: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Security advisory in Jenkins
We are still learning how we should handle vulnerabilities, so I'm sure
there's room for improvements.
We have multiple release lines to which the fixes have to be released
simultaneously, and overall this overhead is significant. That's why we did
one massive release that contains all the fixes.
Wrt CVE-2013-2186, a week ago we got a report from somebody that he did a
security scan and found that we are still using a vulnerable version of the
library to which CVE-2013-2186 is assigned. In this release we use a newer
version of the library that addresses the problem, and I thought it'd be
appropriate to raise a flag to the users that if they continue to use older
versions, they'd remain vulnerable to CVE-2013-2186. That's why it's in the
advisory. It is not because we sat on a report for more than a year.
When you say the timeframe is especially concerning, perhaps you mean you
are concerned that we fail to notice this vulnerability in our library for
more than a year, and if so, you are of course right. Jenkins project has
gotten a long list of library dependencies, and I haven't found any
practical means to get notified when vulnerabilities are found in any one
of them.
2014-10-01 19:11 GMT-07:00 Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>:
> Bryan - I think Kohsuke is not subscribed. I've added CC.
>
> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 08:36:59PM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> > On 10/1/2014 6:25 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
> > > I just wanted to share that the Jenkins project issued a security
> advisory
> > > today. These issues are independently found and we've aggregated into a
> > > single release.
> > >
> > > The relevant CVE IDs, our bug tracking IDs are available here
> > > <
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/SECURITY/Jenkins+Security+Advisory+2014-10-01
> >
> > > .
> > >
> > > The new versions can be downloaded from here
> > > <http://mirrors.jenkins-ci.org/>.
> > >
> > > (This is the first time I do this, so my apologies in advance for
> probably
> > > failing to follow the expected format.)
> >
> > Kudos to all for finding and fixing these issues. It was quite a
> > surprising list though. Were these fixes kept from release for an
> > extended time? The timeframe for CVE-2013-2186 is especially concerning.
>
> Many of these issues were brought to the distros list on Fri Sep 26
> 17:10:16 2014 UTC, and got their CVE IDs assigned there. However,
> CVE-2013-2186 was not among those. I don't know why the old CVE ID,
> nor how that issue was handled.
>
> Alexander
>
--
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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