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Excerpts from Calum's message of Sun Sep 26 19:28:01 +0200 2010: |
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> On 26 September 2010 11:31, Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Gentoo has been vulnerable to a highly-publicized (Guardian, Slashdot, |
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> > the works) local privilege escalation for almost two weeks now. (Well, |
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> > it has been vulnerable for years, but of course we didn't know about it |
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> > until two weeks ago.) |
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> > In the bugzilla thread tracking the problem it has been mentioned a few |
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> > times that the kernel does not receive GLSA support: |
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> > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337645 |
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> Kernels used to be covered in GLSAs. |
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> I mourned the loss of kernel GLSAs quite a while back. |
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> http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.security/month=20070401 |
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I kindly request follow-up posters to not post +1's in this thread. |
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> […] |
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> I still don't understand why there isn't a single security alert point |
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> of reference that covers everything on a Gentoo box though. |
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> What would it take to get kernels included again? |
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Kernel sources will not be included in the GLSA system again. |
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The whole process was designed for userland packages, not kernel |
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sources. |
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We hope to get the kernel-check [1] utility to serve this purpose one |
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day. |
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The invitation Kurt extended to contact us and help is still standing. |
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[1] |
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http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/kernel-check.git;a=summary |
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Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> |
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Gentoo Security/Ruby |
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