Of course, I implied this policy to be in line with
http://www.apache.org/security/

Best regards,

Pierre Smits

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On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Nicolas Malin <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Yes I agree with Jacopo, when can create the issue only when they are
> corrected
>
> Nicolas
>
>
>
> Le 29/11/2016 à 10:55, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
>
>> We can definitely create one Jira ticket for each CVE number with all the
>> details we want and link them from the "security" section of the OFBiz
>> download page.
>> This was probably implied in Pierre's proposal, but I prefer to explicitly
>> state here: these tickets will be created only after the CVE are publicly
>> disclosed (i.e. the tickets will be created and resolved at the same
>> time).
>> The good news is that we can create now all the tickets for the CVE
>> processed so far in the history of OFBiz, in order to implement what
>> Pierre
>> has proposed here.
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Pierre Smits <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Recently we have seen some security issues fixed in the code base
>>> (CVE-2016-6800 and CVE-2016-4462). Thanks to all who participated in
>>> identifying, analysing and fixing these OFBiz security threats.
>>>
>>> When I look at how we communicate to our adopters that there are threats
>>> and how they can be mitigated [1] I believe we could and we should do a
>>> little bit more. There we merely put a reference to the CVE [2] issue
>>> (see
>>> [3] for example) there and and advice to upgrade. But on that page we
>>> leave
>>> out any particulars on how the issue affected OFBiz and what was done to
>>> it. Rightly so as it is just a list of notifications.
>>>
>>> The details about the effect of the issue and the mitigation is in
>>> commits.
>>> But there is no apparent relation between the notification on [1] and the
>>> actual commit that mitigated. Also reporting the CVE in JIRA issues not
>>> optimal. This leads to the fact that details don't appear in release
>>> notes
>>> very well.
>>>
>>> I believe we could and should do better. We should *always* have a JIRA
>>> issue explaining the CVE issue and its effect on the OFBiz product, have
>>> it
>>> enhanced with the proper tags or labels (e.g. CVE/Security), and - like
>>> any
>>> other JIRA issue - have it showing with which commit(s) it has been
>>> resolved and on which branch it has been implemented.
>>>
>>> With a proper filter definition on JIRA we can then shorten the
>>> vulnerability section in [1] and have that link to that JIRA filter
>>> definition.
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> References:
>>>
>>>     - [1] http://ofbiz.apache.org/download.html
>>>     - [2] CVE: Common Vulnerability and Exposure
>>>     - [3] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6800
>>>
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Pierre Smits
>>>
>>> ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
>>> OFBiz based solutions & services
>>>
>>> OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
>>> http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/
>>>
>>>
>

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