Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2019-09-25 Thread Bastian Blank
Hi Holger On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 03:33:43PM +, Holger Levsen wrote: > How are the Xen 4.4 fixes coming along? In the meantime I was informed by Peter that finishing anything like a usable backport is not feasible in a useful time frame. I updated the security tracker now and marked all the

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-20 Thread Peter Dreuw
Hi, Holger, > Holger Levsen hat am 19. Dezember 2018 um 16:33 > geschrieben: > On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: > > go to https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team as a logged in user > and you will see a button "request access" (unless you are already a >

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-19 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Peter, sorry for the delay in replying... On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 01:32:49PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: > > Assuming (*) you will continue to work on xen DLAs: please apply to become > > a project member of https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/ so > > that you can push your commits

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-07 Thread Peter Dreuw
Hi Holger, hi all, On 06.12.18 21:49, Holger Levsen wrote: >>> I assume it might also be a good idea if'd summarize the state >>> of the various (CVE) issues in NOTEs in data/dla-needed.txt in >>> security-tracker.git so that it's clearly visible in one location what >>> the status of

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Peter, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:45:29AM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: > sorry for replying late. I picked up a cold and was out of office some > days. /me also waves with a jojo-cold (going up and down) > > If some of the Spectre mitigations can't be backported, make a detailed > > writeup of

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-06 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Peter, On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 12:35:32PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: > Hi Holger, hi all, I've re-added the debian-lts list... > On 05.12.18 18:58, Holger Levsen wrote: > > yes, we should fix what's (sensibly) possible to fix in xen 4.4. > > > > So Peter, please go ahead and backport as much

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-06 Thread Peter Dreuw
Hi Moritz, Hi all! sorry for replying late. I picked up a cold and was out of office some days. On 28.11.18 22:44, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: >> Hi out there, >> Another option would be backporting the Xen >>

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-05 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Peter and everyone, first of all, thank you all for contributing to this thread! On Mon, Dec 03, 2018 at 08:40:08PM +, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > If so, the other fixes are probably not to much work. But implementing > > BTI fixes is a long and unknown road. I cannot give any reliable

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2018-12-03 at 15:49 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2018-12-03 20:40:08, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't see this as an acceptable option for LTS. We could maybe add a > > xen-4.8 package if it was popular in jessie-backports, but that doesn't > > excuse us from having

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-03 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2018-12-03 20:40:08, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > I don't see this as an acceptable option for LTS. We could maybe add a > xen-4.8 package if it was popular in jessie-backports, but that doesn't > excuse us from having to support 4.4. As I was repeatedly told during my work on Enigmail /

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Wed, 2018-11-28 at 12:59 +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: [...] > While XSA-275 and XSA280 might be easy to apply the upstream fix, > XSA-279 does not apply to the current Xen 4.4 state. XSA-279 does only > affect after implementing the XSA-254 (Meltdown) fixes. From this > perspective. XSA-279 could

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-11-29 Thread Antoine Beaupré
On 2018-11-28 22:44:52, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: >> Hi out there, >> Another option would be backporting the Xen >> 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10 (and following) package from >> Stretch to Jessie. > > What would be the

Re: Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-11-28 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 12:59:11PM +0100, Peter Dreuw wrote: > Hi out there, > Another option would be backporting the Xen > 4.8.4+xsa273+shim4.10.1+xsa273-1+deb9u10 (and following) package from > Stretch to Jessie. What would be the point? If you migrate to a complete new Xen release, then you

Xen 4.4 updates vs. Xen Stretch backport

2018-11-28 Thread Peter Dreuw
Hi out there, as you might have noticed, we fixed many issues with Xen 4.4 in Jessie. cf. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/xen With this, all current "trivial" cases are closed (ignoring the few arm already marked no-DSA before the LTS support stepped in) These might be