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From: Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Where should security issues with GNU ELPA packages be reported?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 17:14:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wmpmmg7j.fsf@ice9.digital> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878r225ohb.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Thu,  28 Mar 2024 16:07:44 +0000")

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Morgan Willcock <morgan@ice9.digital> writes:
>
>> I think I have found a security issue with a package which is
>> distributed on GNU ELPA, and I am unsure who to notify.
>>
>> Given that the package is technically part of Emacs, do I follow
>> whatever the procedure would be for disclosing security problems with
>> Emacs?  If so, what is that procedure?
>>
>> Or should I e-mail the package author first?
>>
>> Given that it is not the package author who is distributing the package,
>> I am unsure what to do.
>
> It would probably be better to message the maintainer first, if there is
> no explicit maintainer you can check elpa.git to infer who is
> responsible.

There is an e-mail address for the maintainer, I just wasn't sure
whether going to them first was the correct thing to do.

> Can you disclose what package you are concerned about?

I was not planning on naming it until after I had spoken privately to
whoever the appropriate person is.  The problem concerns an encryption
failure which potentially exposes private security keys.

-- 
Morgan Willcock



  reply	other threads:[~2024-03-28 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-28 13:40 Where should security issues with GNU ELPA packages be reported? Morgan Willcock
2024-03-28 14:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-03-28 16:07 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-28 17:14   ` Morgan Willcock [this message]
2024-03-29  5:53     ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-03-31 23:46 ` Richard Stallman

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