Re: Bug report with private info

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On Thu, 2013-08-15 at 12:09 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 13:03 +0100, Pedro Francisco wrote:
> >> Hello!
> >> I found a bug report with possible private info on it.
> >>
> >> What should I do?
> >>
> >> 1- Contact bugzilla admin to remove the attachment?
> >> 2- Contact the owner of the bug and warn him of it?
> >> 3- Both?
> >
> > Not quite sure what you mean by 'private info', but definitely do
> > something - you mean it exposes the user's secrets? Definitely do #2 and
> > if it's really urgent do #1 at the same time. Anyone with editbugs
> > privileges can mark a comment as private which at least limits the
> > number of people who could see the secret data, so you can contact
> > anyone you trust who's a package maintainer or has editbugs privs
> > through the old triage group or something (including me, and many others
> > on this list) and ask if they can mark the attachment as private, too.
> 
> 
> Now that the issue is taken care of, should a bug be open to prevent
> something like this to happen again? I know ABRT has a notice saying
> 'possible private info detected, please review', but usually it's just
> the username...

Perhaps abrt could warn harder if the detected field is something that
may be a password rather than a username. Like you I've gotten rather
blase about that warning since it started showing up for usernames;
classic example of the 'false positive' problem for security
mechanisms...
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