On Tuesday 11 May 2010 13:08:53 Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 05/11/2010 03:43 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> Do we have a security team who evaluate security issues that are filed
> against any package, and who have the privileges to immediately fix the
> CVE should the maintainer not be responsive enough wrt the severity of
> the security problem ? We shouldn't have security fixes blocked on the
> unreponsive maintainer process. Proven packagers obviously have suitable
> CVS commit privileges to make the changes, but do any of them actively
> monitor for security issues & address them ?
Yes. Security team did monitor and filed the security issue but they
don't do commits and builds and there is no team outside of them taking
care of these issues. It would be great to take care of this.
Would be great to have similar team - I've already did update for them as
provenpackager (unmaintained orphaned package - mod_auth_shadow) but I wasn't
sure about my responsibilities for this update. Some clarification would be
great (I'm not talking about another policy just recommended practice).
Jaroslav
Rahul
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