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> The package was masked due to a miscommunication with the Gentoo |
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> Security project. |
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> While it is true that the way opentmpfiles is currently implemented |
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> allows for certain races, from the security point of view, you always |
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> have to classify the vulnerability in context of your threat model |
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> because security depends on multiple layers (onion model). |
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I would like to respectfully point out that this makes |
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1) either the severity assignment of this bug by the Security project as B1 wrong (i.e. it should have been classified "harmless") |
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2) or the entire classification of severity levels according to the Security project pointless (i.e. you can't base any actions on them because a mystery onion needs to be taken into account). |
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https://www.gentoo.org/support/security/vulnerability-treatment-policy.html |
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Andreas K. Hüttel |
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dilfridge@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux developer |
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(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice) |
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