From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Alex Vong <alexvong1995@gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 15:18:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170707191840.GA26371@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efu3h015.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:48:22PM +0800, Alex Vong wrote:
> Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> writes:
>
> [...]
> > But, the "Stack Clash" issues took us by surprise and we spent a few
> > days writing and testing our fixes. We are committed to supporting
> > 32-bit platforms where these bugs are apparently easy to exploit.
> > Without access to the exploits or detailed discussion, it was very
> > difficult to know if our fixes actually worked. So, we could have
> > responded more quickly and effectively with early notice.
> [...]
>
> Should we bring this discussion to nix devs as well? I am sure they are
> facing the same issue of not having early access to vulnerabilities. It
> will be insightful to know how they dealt with it in the past and their
> opinions on joining the list.
If somebody who has a relationship with the Nix team would like to
discuss it with them, I'd be happy to hear the result, but I don't
really have time for it right now. Also, we would not be able to discuss
embargoed bugs from linux-distros with them, according to the list
policy.
Besides, I think our present situation and practices regarding security
updates is very different from Nix's. They have different tools for
shipping security updates, and they do the "stable" branch thing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-07 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-28 21:36 FW: [oss-security] accepting new members to (linux-)distros lists Leo Famulari
2017-06-28 22:45 ` ng0
2017-06-29 4:48 ` Alex Vong
2017-07-07 19:18 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2017-07-10 15:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-06-29 19:27 ` Marius Bakke
2017-07-01 13:26 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-05 17:33 ` Mark H Weaver
2017-07-07 19:38 ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-10 15:53 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-10 17:24 ` Leo Famulari
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