FYI HADOOP-15878 is tracking publishing impacted versions for the CVE

On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 11:37 AM Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> I can get behind more aggressively updating our dependencies to avoid
> CVEs. I don't think we should do this in maintenance releases though.
> Maintenance releases are meant to be extremely low risk for downstream
> users. Despite our efforts to date upgrading a dependency is still
> disruptive, especially when it's Hadoop. CVEs carry with them a needed
> context for something to be an issue. That context almost never covers
> all possible deployment scenarios and we should leave it to downstream
> users to decide if the risk / reward trade off of justifies the
> dependency update. Asking folks who think the risk is worth it to bump
> up a minor HBase version or patch their deployment locally is a
> reasonable trade off IMHO.
>
> I think I have the Hadoop PMC on board for publicizing impacted
> versions on CVE-2018-8009 specifically. Give me a couple of days to
> get that out in whatever form so that everyone in this discussion has
> a more level field?
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:07 PM 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I believe if there is a CVE for any of the dependencies we should try to
> > upgrade it, and IIRC there is an issue about finding these dependencies out
> > automatically. We haven't done this before does not mean ignoring a CVE is
> > the correct way, it is just because no one takes care of it...
> >
> > And the hadoop team has stated the versions which are vulnerable, all
> > versions before 2.7.7, 2.8.5, 2.9.2(not released yet?), 3.0.3 and 3.1.1.
> > Not sure if they have published this out to the public, but as you can see
> > the url provided by me above, it is already public, so it does not matter
> > whether the hadoop team has published or not...
> >
> > Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> 于2018年10月23日周二 上午9:50写道:
> >
> > > Has the Hadoop PMC put out a public notice on the impact of that CVE yet?
> > > Specifically have they stated what versions are vulnerable? Are we 
> > > flagging
> > > all versions impacted by it as "HBase says keep away"?
> > >
> > > Is there some reason this particular CVE especially impacts users of 
> > > HBase?
> > > I presume not since we're talking about this on dev@ and in JIRA instead
> > > of
> > > on private@.
> > >
> > > Why are we reacting to this CVE when we don't seem to react to any other
> > > Hadoop CVEs? Or is this the start of a change wrt that?
> > >
> > > What about other dependencies with open CVEs?
> > >
> > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 20:33 张铎(Duo Zhang) <palomino...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > See here:
> > > >
> > > > https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-8009
> > > >
> > > > All 2.7.x releases before 2.7.7 have the problem. And for 2.6.x, the
> > > hadoop
> > > > team seems to drop the support as there is no release about two years, 
> > > > so
> > > > either we keep the original support versions, or we just drop the 
> > > > support
> > > > for the 2.6.x release line.
> > > >
> > > > Zach York <zyork.contribut...@gmail.com> 于2018年10月23日周二 上午8:51写道:
> > > >
> > > > > What is the main reason for the change? Build time speedup?
> > > > >
> > > > > Any reason for testing all of the 2.6.x line, but not the 2.7.x line?
> > > We
> > > > > don't check at all for 2.8.x?
> > > > >
> > > > > Can we be more consistent with how we test compatibility? (Do we only
> > > > care
> > > > > about the latest patch release in a line?)
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry If I'm missing some of the reasoning, but at a surface level it
> > > > seems
> > > > > fairly arbitrary which releases we are cutting.
> > > > >
> > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 5:44 PM Sean Busbey <bus...@apache.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Please leave me time to review before it is committed.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018, 13:58 Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Duo has a patch up on HBASE-20970 that changes the Hadoop versions
> > > we
> > > > > > check
> > > > > > > at build time. Any objections to committing to branch-2.1+?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > It makes following changes:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7.1 2.7.2 2.7.3 2.7.4
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > becomes
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2.6.1 2.6.2 2.6.3 2.6.4 2.6.5 2.7.7
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > And...
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 3.0.0
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > goes to
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 3.0.3
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Shout if you are against the change else will commit tomorrow.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > S
> > > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > >

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