Condor maintainers, Could you provide your thoughts/feedback on the below?
Regards, -Roberto On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 07:44:40AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Hello all, > > Your feedback on the condor update situation (described below) would be > appreciated. > > Several weeks ago I prepared updates for condor for jessie (then-LTS), > stretch, and buster (the latter two still under the security team > ubmrella) to address CVE-2019-18823. The description of the fix is "an > information disclosure of authentication credentials could allow an > attacker to impersonate an authenticated user and perform actions as > that user." > > I messaged the security team to seek counsel regarding the best way to > proceed with the update in stretch and buster with the intent of > resolving that question before proceeding with the jessie update. The > security team asked about what sort of testing had been performed. Not > being a user of condor my ability test the changes is limited, and since > the changes involve the authentication mechanisms, it would perhaps be > unwise to publish the update without some form of testing. Thus far I > have not taken further action. > > One the one hand it seems a shame to discard the prepared update, but on > the other hand the security team's concern regarding potential > regressions is quite correct. > > Does anyone have any specific suggestions? That is, is anyone able to > offer to test these packages or know someone who might be able to? > Apart from that, might there be an approach to minimize the possibility > of a regression? > > Regards, > > -Roberto > > -- > Roberto C. Sánchez -- Roberto C. Sánchez
