On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:51 AM, Otto Kekäläinen <otto@seravo.fi> wrote:
Hello Daniel (and others),
The usual changelogs[1] and relese notes[2] don't seem to contain CVE identifiers, or even a separate section about fixed security issues
For the downstream security teams if would be reassuring if the CVE information would be easily available. For example if the security teams follow the CVE news and they for example know or suspect that CVE-2014-4260 affects MariaDB, it would be nice to see if it is already fixed or what version it was fixed in, so downstream security teams can organize and prioritize their patching and release work.
Do you have any suggestion how to address this?
Should we maybe have a separate wiki page, e.g. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/cve/ that would have a table of CVEs and MariaDB 5.5/10.0/Galera versions where they are fixed? Or should just each release notes include a subsection "Security" with these details? Something else?
Of course we need to consider timing issues, e.g. a security issue fixed in MariaDB might get publicity and a CVE only later when Oracle releases it, and in those cases old release notes need to be upgraded to include the CVE identifiers.
[1] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10013-changelog/ [2] https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10013-release-notes/
(To be exact, googling for 'mariadb cve' does give one hit at mariadb.com in the 5.3.12 release notes)
A CVE page would be good. As would adding them to the release notes. If someone will take up the role of keeping a CVE page up-to-date, I can add a step to the release process to check the page prior to a release and add CVE notices to the release notes and changelog entries. Thanks. -- Daniel Bartholomew, MariaDB Release Manager MariaDB | http://mariadb.com