Agree with you that’s it’s a standard checklist item (in DoD for STIGs). But fundamentally useless. The security auditors agree but yeah, checklist folks are generally not persuadable. I can see a config option.
Mike -- Michael Smith US Army Corps of Engineers Remote Sensing/GIS Center From: MapServer-dev <[email protected]> on behalf of "Nash, Edward" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 at 7:15 AM To: MapServer Dev Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] Dropping Version Output? It may or may not be pure security theatre (personally, I’d tend to agree with you on that), but ‘round these parts then not publishing the versions of external software components used is pretty high up on standard checklists for securing systems (and is low-hanging fruit for anyone to check, so shows up pretty quickly), so being able to configure it out would save plenty of hassle. Ed Von: MapServer-dev [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von [email protected] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Februar 2022 12:37 An: Tom Kralidis <[email protected]> Cc: MapServer Dev Mailing List <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [mapserver-dev] Dropping Version Output? Also, I’d say that any perceived extra security by not having this info in the response is not really security, just security theatre. Keep it in. Michael Smith US Army Corps On Feb 16, 2022, at 6:34 AM, Tom Kralidis <[email protected]> wrote: I would suggest keeping at least the version somewhere in the responses (i.e. current behaviour, or move to an HTTP header). For scenarios where users do not have access to the deployment environment, this information is critical. ..Tom On Tue, Feb 15, 2022 at 8:49 PM Steve Lime <[email protected]> wrote: What do folks think about dropping the version output from MapServer? That is, output like: <!-- MapServer version 7.6.4 OUTPUT=PNG OUTPUT=JPEG SUPPORTS=PROJ SUPPORTS=AGG SUPPORTS=FREETYPE SUPPORTS=CAIRO SUPPORTS=ICONV SUPPORTS=WMS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WMS_CLIENT SUPPORTS=WFS_SERVER SUPPORTS=WCS_SERVER SUPPORTS=GEOS SUPPORTS=POINT_Z_M SUPPORTS=PBF INPUT=JPEG INPUT=POSTGIS INPUT=OGR INPUT=GDAL INPUT=SHAPEFILE --> I'm not sure that advertising version and supported components makes sense anymore. Might be able to make it tunable via the config file but I'm not sure that's even necessary. --Steve _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev _______________________________________________ MapServer-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/mapserver-dev
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