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On 05/07/2013 11:59 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> the guys who maintain the security CVE project [1] [2] (designed to be the |
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> authority when it comes to indexing security related vulnerabilities in |
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> projects) have a CPE specification [3] to make tracking CVEs back to a |
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> canonical source in a machine parseable format. |
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> |
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> the ChromiumOS project wants to be able to tie CPEs to a specific package. |
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> this would probably also be a good thing for our own security team to tie into |
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> the GLSA process. the Debian project too is extending their database to |
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> include CPE information [4]. |
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> we've already got a database for maintaining this sort of thing on a per- |
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> package basis: metadata.xml. so let's extend the DTD to cover this. the |
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> existing remote-id field looks like a pretty good fit, so the proposal is |
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> simple: add a new "cpe" type. the entries for net-misc/curl would be: |
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> <upstream> |
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> <remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:curl:curl</remote-id> |
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> <remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:curl:libcurl</remote-id> |
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> </upstream> |
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> |
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> or the gzip package: |
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> <upstream> |
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> <remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:gnu:gzip</remote-id> |
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> </upstream> |
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> for most packages, there will probably be only one cpe entry, but as you can |
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> see here, sometimes more than one can track back to a single package. |
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> we have some scripts running on the CrOS side to try and do an initial seed |
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> (at least, for all the packages we're using), so i'll probably take care of |
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> merging that into the main tree. i'm not proposing this be required or |
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> anything (since not all packages will have one). |
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> thoughts ? |
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Love it. |
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- -Zero |
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> -mike |
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> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Vulnerabilities_and_Exposures |
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> [2] http://cve.mitre.org/ |
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> [3] http://cpe.mitre.org/specification/ |
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> [4] http://wiki.debian.org/CPEtagPackagesDep |
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