RE: Handling security vulnerabilities at Apache

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Thomas
-Original Message- From: Jukka Zitting [mailto:jukka.zitt...@gmail.com] The process at .../security/ answers parts of that question, but I find some steps like the suggestion to obscure the commit that fixes a vulnerability a bit awkward. One idea I came up with is to have a

Re: Handling security vulnerabilities at Apache

2009-01-13 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jukka Zitting wrote: The process at .../security/ answers parts of that question, but I find some steps like the suggestion to obscure the commit that fixes a vulnerability a bit awkward. One idea I came up with is to have a read-protected area in svn where (only?) security fixes can be

Re: Handling security vulnerabilities at Apache

2009-01-13 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:02 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: We pass around patches at secur...@httpd until they are right. Less efficient than SVN, perhaps. More than the actual fixing of the vulnerability, I'm interested in the process of releasing the fix. Creating

Re: Handling security vulnerabilities at Apache

2009-01-13 Thread David Crossley
Jukka Zitting wrote: A related point is the delay that our mirror infrastructure puts on the release process. A security release that gets set up for mirroring is already publicly available even though it can't under current policies be announced until 24 hours later. Would it be acceptable