Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-31 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Moritz, > >We'll have a security team meeting at DebConf and will discuss >virtualbox as well. following up on the DebConf discussion, I did update vbox for wheezy and jessie, on the respective braches on git (names with the codenames) targeted -security. http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-v

Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-15 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:16:59AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > Yes, otherwise the points remains: > > 1) leave the oracle with CVEs in stable releases > > or > > 2) have an exception from Security Team and/or Release Team > > or > > 3) wait and hope Oracle will change the model or ma

Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 07:16 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: > >But if the security team can agree up with this release model, then > the > >VBox team could just keep it up-to-date. > > > > Yes, otherwise the points remains: > > 1) leave the oracle with CVEs in stable releases > > or >

Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-10 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, >Debian Security Team: >These are what we have currently in Debian: > >oldstable: 4.1.18 >stable: 4.3.18 >testing: 4.3.30 I would add (as Ben requested) old-old-stable 3.2.10 --> 3.2.28 (this will fix AFAICS all the CVEs on o-o-stable, but not the latest one) https://www.virtualbox.org

Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 07:40 +0200, Markus Frosch wrote: > > I'm not sure how they handle vulnerabilities. But their release > strategy is: ESR and Regular releases. Every security fix goes into > the > > next Regular release, and also the ESR release. > > > > ESR is supported until the next ESR

Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Debian Security Team, (Dear Jonathan, thanks for the heads-up, I tried to avoid cross-posting, and I thought release was a better place then security, so dropping -release from the mail cc, let me know if I have to readd it) I would like to ask you whether is possible to have an exception fo