Well...

CVEs can occur on any component (even though past issues have been related
for most to framework components. So having a particular component just for
CVE reference purposes would complicate matters as much as converting JIRA
issues into sub-tasks.

Applying a tag to the issue (e.g. CVE) and using a persisted filter in JIRA
would be sufficient to link to from the download page (and elsewhere e.g.
the 'keeping OFBiz secure' cwiki page.

Best regards,




Pierre Smits

ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
OFBiz based solutions & services

OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Jacopo Cappellato <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Rather than using subtasks I think it would be better to use a component
> (named CVE or similar).
>
> Il 29 Nov 2016 1:50 PM, "Jacques Le Roux" <[email protected]>
> ha
> scritto:
>
> > Also it would be better if we can group all security issues in Jira. For
> > that I created OFBIZ-1525, please if you create Jira security issues
> create
> > (or convert) them as subtasks of OFBIZ-1525
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Jacques
> >
> >
> > Le 29/11/2016 à 11:05, Pierre Smits a écrit :
> >
> >> Of course, I implied this policy to be in line with
> >> http://www.apache.org/security/
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Pierre Smits
> >>
> >> ORRTIZ.COM <http://www.orrtiz.com>
> >> OFBiz based solutions & services
> >>
> >> OFBiz Extensions Marketplace
> >> http://oem.ofbizci.net/oci-2/
> >>
> >> 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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