Re: Fedora Security SIG Update

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> >
> > brilliant idea, especially the secure coding education. There needs to
> > be better guidance on problems, with real examples of code that are
> > wrong, how one can exploit the flaw and what the correct way is to
> > code something to prevent it from being exploitable.
> > This should also include examples of proper logging and graceful
> > shutdown, versus crashing.
> >
> > Also, there should be examples for c/c++, python,php, ruby, or
> > whatever else, makes everyone's boats float.
> 
> OWASP has these on their site already.  Perhaps we just need to point
> people in the right direction?

OWASP has some information, they don't have everything. I generally don't
see a lot of OWASP overlap in the open source universe. I'm unsure why this
is.

OWASP does have a lot of really good content, nobody can deny that.


> 
> > Maybe adding advice on securing services should also be covered.
> 
> This would be helpful.  I'm not sure if we have something like this
> already, but if not, then I have found the idea of the Gentoo security
> handbook to be a good one that perhaps we could be inspired by.
> 

We have a Fedora Security guide. As they say, patches welcome :)

If you're interested, please do get involved. The guide can always use
content.
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