Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2019-03-14 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
As said on irc: 1) I don't want to ship the package in Buster if the security team can't handle security updates 2) I don't want security team to handle them, I'll in case provide them the stuff that can be sponsored (as we did in the past). In case the new micro releases are not ship anymore

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2019-03-13 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, On 13/03/19 at 22:18 +0100, Ivo De Decker wrote: > Control: severity -1 serious > > Hi, > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 03:01:18PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > > After a private discussion with Gianfranco, I'm retitling this bug and > > downgrading its severity. (Gianfranco agrees, at least

Processed: Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2019-03-13 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 serious Bug #794466 [src:virtualbox] virtualbox: might not be suitable for stable releases due to lack of cooperation from upstream on security support for older releases Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' -- 794466:

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2017-08-28 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Control: retitle -1 virtualbox: might not be suitable for stable releases due to lack of cooperation from upstream on security support for older releases Control: severity -1 important Hi, After a private discussion with Gianfranco, I'm retitling this bug and downgrading its severity.

Processed: Re: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2017-08-28 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > retitle -1 virtualbox: might not be suitable for stable releases due to lack > of cooperation from upstream on security support for older releases Bug #794466 [src:virtualbox] Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch Changed Bug title to 'virtualbox: might not

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2016-12-18 Thread solitone
On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 21:59 -0800, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > 3. Do you recommend migrating existing VirtualBox images to KVM? On Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:25:32 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Migration should be doable. I'm not sure if there are any issues in > migration, but you may give it a

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-31 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Moritz, > >We'll have a security team meeting at DebConf and will discuss >virtualbox as well. following up on the DebConf discussion, I did update vbox for wheezy and jessie, on the respective braches on git (names with the codenames) targeted -security.

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-15 Thread Moritz Mühlenhoff
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:16:59AM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Yes, otherwise the points remains: 1) leave the oracle with CVEs in stable releases or 2) have an exception from Security Team and/or Release Team or 3) wait and hope Oracle will change the model or make an

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 07:16 +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: But if the security team can agree up with this release model, then the VBox team could just keep it up-to-date. Yes, otherwise the points remains: 1) leave the oracle with CVEs in stable releases or 2) have an

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-10 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 07:40 +0200, Markus Frosch wrote: I'm not sure how they handle vulnerabilities. But their release strategy is: ESR and Regular releases. Every security fix goes into the next Regular release, and also the ESR release. ESR is supported until the next ESR (31 =

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-10 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi, Debian Security Team: These are what we have currently in Debian: oldstable: 4.1.18 stable: 4.3.18 testing: 4.3.30 I would add (as Ben requested) old-old-stable 3.2.10 -- 3.2.28 (this will fix AFAICS all the CVEs on o-o-stable, but not the latest one)

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-09 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Sat, 2015-08-08 at 20:11 +0200, Markus Frosch wrote: Hi Gianfranco, thanks for your summary. Although I'm not involved in maintaining virtualbox, still a few thoughts: * What would that mean for Jessie updates? * Isn't that basically the same problem we have with MySQL, or even

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-09 Thread Markus Frosch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 09.08.2015 12:51, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: Not sure about MySQL, but for Iceweasel, is it really like that ? From what I've known, there were trademark issues which led to the rebranding. Sorry for being unclear, I meant the usage of

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Markus Frosch
On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 10:47:23 + (UTC) Gianfranco Costamagna costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it wrote: Source: virtualbox Version: 4.3.30-dfsg-1 Severity: critical Hi Gianfranco, thanks for your summary. Although I'm not involved in maintaining virtualbox, still a few thoughts: * What would

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Debian Release Team, TLTR: Virtualbox suffers of many security issues in Debian, specially because Upstream (Oracle) refuses to give patches for CVEs, and (you can see in the Debian bug 794466 an analysis of the Oracle policy and discussion) this makes difficult to handle security uploads

Bug#794466: I: Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Frank and Release Team, Oracle at this moment maintains a 4.0.x 4.1.x 4.2.x 4.3.x 5.0.x branches where security fixes seems to be addressed all. (virtualbox-ose from o-o-s still needs some pinpoint fixes) virtualbox-ose is at version 3.2.10, and the last release from [1] is 3.2.28, and

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On Sat, Aug 08, 2015 at 09:23:31PM +, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote: Virtualbox suffers of many security issues in Debian, specially because Upstream (Oracle) refuses to give patches for CVEs, and (you can see in the Debian bug 794466 an analysis of the Oracle policy and discussion) this

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-08 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Hi Debian Security Team, (Dear Jonathan, thanks for the heads-up, I tried to avoid cross-posting, and I thought release was a better place then security, so dropping -release from the mail cc, let me know if I have to readd it) I would like to ask you whether is possible to have an exception

Bug#794466: Virtualbox might not be suitable for Stretch

2015-08-03 Thread Gianfranco Costamagna
Source: virtualbox Version: 4.3.30-dfsg-1 Severity: critical X-Debbugs-CC: j...@inutil.org X-Debbugs-CC: r...@debian.org X-Debbugs-CC: frank.mehn...@oracle.com X-Debbugs-CC: klaus.espenl...@oracle.com (please cc people if needed As Said in many different threads [1 bottom of the mail], Upstream