On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 09:09:58AM +0530, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote: > Hi All, > > I was asked to bring this issue[1] to the developer community before > FESCO makes a decision. > > In several instances[2] there exists packages in Fedora, in which > package-maintainers did not patch security issues, for multiple reasons > including 1. non-responsive maintainer 2. issue hard to patch 3. no one > cares? > > This is a risk for the distribution, our users and community as a whole > and not to mentioned bad PR :) > > I would like to propose the following: > > > 1. If a CRITICAL or IMPORTANT security issue is open against a package > in Fedora-X and by the time X is EOL and the issue is not addressed, > proactively remove the package from X+1 > 2. If a MODERATE or LOW security issue is open against a package in > Fedora -X and by the time X+! is EOL, the issue is not addressed, remove > it from X+2 > > Note: > 1. Once pkg is patches, it can be rebuild and re-introduced into the distro > 2. X/X+1 is the best boundary to remove the insecure packages imo, since > inbetween removals are not possible due to the way mirrors work. > 3. Maintain a list somewhere (automated maybe) of the list of packages > removed and why. > 4. Have a list of critical pkg, which cannot be removed which will break > the distro. > > The above is not set in stone, but is open for discussion. Let me know > what you guys think! Hello, first of all, I really like a more formal approach. However: what about an old version of package p in Fedora release X-1 with a CVE; if upstream does not fix it, you'd be expecting to fix this by the package maintainer; that'd require either backporting to an older branch, or upgrading the package to a newer version, possibly breaking packages being dependencies of pkg in an old (or at least released) Fedora version. Not ideal :-/ > > In the end, i would like you leave you all with this parting link: > https://sensorstechforum.com/arch-linux-aur-repository-found-contain-malware/ This is a different issue. While we can not be sure this won't happen in Fedora, I'd like to focus on one question/issue per thread. Matthias -- Matthias Runge <mrunge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/6CGHEU3PI4BW3Q46PHJNZNKCRPZ7H7A2/
