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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 11:09:39 -0700
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists
On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 08, 2017 at 04:11:25PM +0200, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:02:40PM +0200, Solar Designer wrote:
>> > 6. If CVE IDs are requested, the report is valid, and you're a CNA,
>> > assign those (requesting any required information from the reporter
>> > first)
>> >
>> > 7. If the report does not mention CVE IDs (neither requests nor provides
>> > them, and doesn't mention the reporter having requested them elsewhere),
>> > yet the report is valid and it looks like distros will need CVE IDs, and
>> > you're a CNA, ask the reporter whether they have already requested CVE
>> > IDs elsewhere, then assign those if they haven't been requested
>> > elsewhere
>>
>> Speaking for Debian: Debian beeing a CNA can *help* monitoring those
>> explicitly and assign where needed CVEs from the assigned pool.
>
> I've listed Debian as backup for the two CVE tasks above. I've also
> listed Red Hat as primary for these two tasks, based on Red Hat's
> contributions so far. And I've listed Cloud Linux and Gentoo beside
> the tasks they kindly volunteered for in postings in here.
>
> I see that Gentoo is already active at their tasks, including reminding
> reporters to post to oss-security and taking care of the SPICE posting
> (when the reporter wasn't available to make it on time):
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/14/1
>
> as well as collecting statistics. Thanks!
>
>> We are already as well contributing to other tasks, and will continue
>> to do so as time permits.
>
> Thank you!
>
> However, many tasks remain vacant, with no distro responsible for them.
> This doesn't mean they're not getting done - just that no particular
> distro is responsible - yet that's something I'd like to see change.
>
> Specifically, all 6 of the technical tasks and 5 of 13 administrative
> tasks are now fully vacant. Additionally, 11 of the administrative
> tasks have no backup.
We (Amazon Linux) are very happy to fill in whatever gaps are needed.
Most of the places where that can be done most effectively already
have a primary. I hate to just sign up to be backup but if we did
that, we would track independently to ensure nothing got missed.
So maybe backup for administrative tasks 9-13 and then we can be
primary for technical task 3? We already test all of these fixes so
responding with a report of the testing we've done is straight forward
enough.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> These distros have no task assigned: ALT Linux, Amazon Linux AMI, Arch
> Linux, Chrome OS, Openwall, Oracle, Slackware, SUSE, Ubuntu, Wind River,
> FreeBSD, NetBSD/pkgsrc.
>
> Openwall might be exempt for now for us running the lists and being the
> last resort fallback for most tasks. ;-) The rest should volunteer for
> some tasks now!
>
> Red Hat almost made this list, except that I listed them for the two CVE
> tasks on my own.
>
> http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/distros#contributing-back
>
> Alexander
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