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Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:32:05 +0200
From: Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thousands of vulnerabilities, almost no CVEs:
OSS-Fuzz
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On Sat, 2019-06-15 at 17:57 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2019 at 11:49:03AM -0400, Alex Gaynor wrote:
> > I do not have a solution to this problem. I wanted to raise awareness of
> > it, in the hope that it would start a discussion which might come to a
> > solution.
>
> Why not just do a simple "you must upgrade to the latest version X to
> fix a bunch of bugs" type of announcement? No need to worry about crazy
> backports and cherry-picking, that always fails in the end.
I sympathize with this view, and I think we need to get better at updating,
but I really think not all projects can be “safely” just updated to the latest
version. End-users and IT admins still value stability and regressions is
still a thing in a lot of cases. And once a regression is introduced, it's not
always a short time before it's fixed upstream.
And before reaching the end-user, some project latest versions might depend on
a lot of “latest version” of other projects. In some case the dependency tree
might involve large scale changes affecting the whole system.
So sure, in some cases it makes sense to just update to latest versions, but
I' m really not sure it's the general case. I'm not entirely satisfied by the
situation either but I don't have a magic way to fix it.
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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