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On Friday 26 August 2011 20:00:15 Joost Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Friday, August 26, 2011 07:06:35 PM Christian Kauhaus wrote: |
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> > Am 26.08.2011 18:55, schrieb Alex Legler: |
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> > > Compared to other distributions, our advisories have been rather |
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> > > detailed with lots of manually researched information. I'm not sure |
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> > > if |
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> > > we can keep up this very high standard with the limited manpower, |
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> > > but |
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> > > we'll try our best. |
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> > I see the point. I think it would be an achievement over the current |
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> > situation (which is: no current GLSAs at all) to send out less detailed |
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> > GLSAs. Even something short as: "$PACKAGE has vulnerabilities, they are |
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> > fixed in $VERSION, for details see $CVE" would be immensely helpful. |
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> > |
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> > Is the any viable way to get it at least to this point? Probably the |
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> > largest part of such a task could be automated. This would lift the |
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> > burden from the security maintainers. |
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> I agree on this. |
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> I don't (yet) know enough to actually help in this. I tend to follow |
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> advisories and try to keep my machines as much up-to-date as possible. |
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> More brief GSLAs like what Christian mentioned are, for the majority, |
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> sufficient. If someone really needs more information, there is always |
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> google. |
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Like I said, please use Bugzilla and some basic filtering to get notifications |
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until we can provide full advisories again. I realize it's not a solution and |
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you will get the information somewhat unfiltered, but it is a reliable and |
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most importantly currently available source of information. |
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Alex |
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Alex Legler <a3li@g.o> |
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Gentoo Security / Ruby |
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