Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-04-27 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Andrew Deck wrote: > On a related note, does anyone know what happened to OSF and the OSVDB? > There still seem to be blog updates, but I remember OSVDB having a web > UI, and the OSF website seems to be down. They have officially closed the OSVDB site: https://

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-28 Thread Andrew Deck
On a related note, does anyone know what happened to OSF and the OSVDB? There still seem to be blog updates, but I remember OSVDB having a web UI, and the OSF website seems to be down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Vulnerability_Database#Contributors -- "Institutions will try to pr

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:59:34AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: I think Debian needs to go towards the approach of VRDX-SIG and do identifier cross-referencing instead of settling on *one* system for referring to security vulnerabilities. Internally, we would continue to use CVEs and CVE-2016- for

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-22 Thread Paul Wise
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 10:06 PM, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > Well, the friction is one thing, but we need to adopt *one* system for > the future, if CVEs are going the wayside (or even as a complementary > approach). I agree with this post from oss-security: https://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=145

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-22 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2016-03-13 08:53:38, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >>> For example, if there are no CVEs are we able to use OVEs instead? >> >> What abaout DWF? > > That didn't exist at the time of Brian's po

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-13 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 10:51 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: >> For example, if there are no CVEs are we able to use OVEs instead? > > What abaout DWF? That didn't exist at the time of Brian's post. I think OVE/OVI still have less friction than

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-12 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Hello, > > Just wondering if there is some other way we can track security issues > for when CVEs are not available. > > Thinking of imagemagick here, it has a lot of security issues, and > requests for CVEs are not getting any response

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 3:49 AM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote: > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 06:58:48PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > >> But I think as well that is right now to early to >> start adopting these for not yet assigned issues. > > Agreed, let's stick with the usual "file a bug to get a t

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-10 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 06:58:48PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > But I think as well that is right now to early to > start adopting these for not yet assigned issues. Agreed, let's stick with the usual "file a bug to get a temporary identifier" procedure for now. Cheers, Moritz

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-06 Thread Brian May
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > For the record, the thread is starting at > > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/04/4 > > where Kurt Seifried from Red Hat raised the concern. Yes, am following that. Not entirely confident anything will happen, however would be good if it does get

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-06 Thread Brian May
Salvatore Bonaccorso writes: > Creating individual bugs in the Debian BTS, including more details > like fixing commits would be a great start, since we use either CVEs > or references to the Debian BTS in DSAs (and DLAs). Furthermore the > security-tracker handles both (you can actually search i

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-06 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi Brian, hi Paul, On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 04:59:43PM +0100, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > Just wondering if there is some other way we can track security issues > > for when CVEs are not available. > > > > Thinking of imagem

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-06 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hi, On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 03:33:16PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > Just wondering if there is some other way we can track security issues > for when CVEs are not available. > > Thinking of imagemagick here, it has a lot of security issues, and > requests for CVEs are not getting any responses. Cre

Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

2016-03-06 Thread Paul Wise
On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Brian May wrote: > Just wondering if there is some other way we can track security issues > for when CVEs are not available. ... > For example, if there are no CVEs are we able to use OVEs instead? > > http://www.openwall.com/ove This sounds like a good idea to me