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On 5/20/07, Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o > wrote: |
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> Anyone interested in contributing the Gentoo kernel security project? |
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> Basic roles here are to handle vulnerabilities (both minor and major) in |
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> the kernel. The issues come in from databases such as cve.mitre.org, |
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> usually with patches, and you have to coordinate those patches flowing |
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> into the portage tree. |
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> The usual process is to have a bug on the Gentoo bugzilla per security |
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> report. Initially you get me to include the patch in genpatches, then |
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> you CC maintainers of all other affected kernels and pester them until |
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> they have fixed their kernel, either by including the newer genpatches |
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> or by adding the patch individually. |
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> This isn't a terribly interesting task, but is important and we're |
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> behind on issue tracking here. The thing that will make it interesting |
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> is that after getting a grasp of how the system works, we are looking |
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> for someone to develop software to help us track the security bugs and |
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> help communicate that info to users (who typically want to know when a |
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> new kernel fixes a security issue, so that they can upgrade). This |
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> software would probably be web-based. |
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> Anyone interested? |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/security/kernel.xml |
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> Thanks, |
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> Daniel |
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