Re: Fedora 35 security update of curl blocked for a month

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On Tue, Nov 02, 2021 at 09:49:45AM +0100, Kamil Dudka wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 2, 2021 9:14:31 AM CET Peter Robinson wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 7:48 AM Kamil Dudka <kdudka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On September 22 I submitted a Fedora 35 update of curl, which obsoleted
> > > a previously submitted security update of curl.  The update has reached
> > > karma +13 since then, yet I was unable to make Bodhi push the update to
> > > stable:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-1d24845e93
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I can see that there are some automated tests failing but I have no idea
> > > where the tests come from or how to waive their results.  The tests
> > > directory in the f35 branch in Fedora git has not been touched since
> > > 2017:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/curl/c/c7e4ac60
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any idea how to move the update forward?
> > 
> > 
> > Well I don't know about the tests but you could have filed it as a
> > blocker/freeze exception [1] for F-35 as we have a policy for fixing
> > CVEs for things that are shipped in core artifacts because things like
> > installers/Live images etc aren't updated over the life of the
> > release, that ship has now sailed but please be aware of the process
> > going forward especially for something as core as curl.

Yep, if there's a security-relevant update, a freeze exception should be
filed.

> > [1] https://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/
> 
> Thanks for heads up!  Nevertheless, curl upstream releases each 8 weeks and 
> each release usually contains some security fixes.  So, if the images do not 
> get updated over the life of the release, we will be in a similar situation
> a few weeks later anyway.  And we always need to balance the risk and profit 
> for any last minute changes...

How many of those issues are relevant to the functionality used by the
installer? E.g. bugs in gopher:// or ftp:// don't really matter.

Zbyszek
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