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On Friday, August 26, 2011 08:07:57 PM Alex Legler wrote: |
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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 |
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> > > > sure |
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> > > > if |
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> > > > we can keep up this very high standard with the limited |
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> > > > manpower, |
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> > > > but |
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> > > > we'll try our best. |
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> > > |
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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 |
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> > > detailed |
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> > > GLSAs. Even something short as: "$PACKAGE has vulnerabilities, they |
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> > > 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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> > |
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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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> > |
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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 |
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> notifications until we can provide full advisories again. I realize it's |
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> not a solution and you will get the information somewhat unfiltered, but it |
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> is a reliable and most importantly currently available source of |
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> information. |
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> Alex |
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Alex, |
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If my reply seemed, in any way, to suggest I do not appreciate the amount of |
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work that has been going into the GLSAs and the difficulty in finding the |
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people to keep doing it, then I am sorry. |
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It wasn't meant to sound that way. |
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I'll go read the Padawan page and see if there is anything I can do. |
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For others, the padawan-page can be found here: |
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http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/padawans.xml |
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Joost |
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