Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 15:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Reading binary file formats, including the legacy MS Office formats, is notoriously difficult to do robustly. Agreed. 2) That security reports should be sent to successor project's security contacts. .. 3) We should list

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: Hi Rob, On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 15:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Reading binary file formats, including the legacy MS Office formats, is notoriously difficult to do robustly.        Agreed. 2) That security reports

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:45:34 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Security reports come from security reporters. Can you tell us whether Red Hat, Inc. security researcher Huzaifa Sidhpurwala is a TDF member and whether he was reporting this issue under instructions from TDF? Does it

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:06 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:45:34 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Security reports come from security reporters.  Can you tell us whether Red Hat, Inc. security researcher Huzaifa Sidhpurwala is a TDF member and

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On 10 Oct 2011, at 12:45, Rob Weir wrote: No objections if you want to start a separate invitation-only security discussion list. It would probably get some use. But we'll continue to ask for security reports to come to ooo-security.i.a.o. We appeared to reach consensus[1] on this issue

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 10 Oct 2011, at 12:45, Rob Weir wrote: No objections if you want to start a separate invitation-only security discussion list.  It would probably get some use.  But we'll continue to ask for security reports to come to

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes. I've read all the emails from last week. Please can you answer my question, then, I am not interested in your argument with Meeks. S.

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes.  I've read all the emails from last week. Please can you answer my question, then, I am not interested in your argument with Meeks. I've

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've restated, in more explicit form, what I think the consensus is. It's hard to read your words that way, as they leave no room for anyone but Apache committers. The clear consensus was for collaboration with the StarOffice

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I've restated, in more explicit form, what I think the consensus is. It's hard to read your words that way, as they leave no room for anyone but Apache

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 10 Oct 2011, at 14:31, Rob Weir wrote: This are not mutually exclusive options, Simon. And I have very clearly never argued for an exclusive arrangement, Rob. It's you that has, even if now you are attempting to

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to be achieved? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Michael Meeks [mailto:michael.me...@suse.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 03:11 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice [ ... ] I would instead seriously suggest that the Apache OOo decision

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On 10 Oct 2011, at 15:55, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: Back to the actual issue: * for (A), AOOo clearly needs a private security list. We all agree. * for (B), the legacy StarOffice ecosystem clearly needs a shared private

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Monday, October 10, 2011 07:55 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: [ ... ] Back to the actual issue: * for (A), AOOo clearly needs a private security list. We all agree. * for (B

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Simon Phipps
On 10 Oct 2011, at 16:03, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Now, how is détente to be achieved? I suggest by mutually agreeing a list-user-managed venue for future non-partisan collaboration in the spirit that previously existed on securityt...@openoffice.org - please see the other message I just

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dennis, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:03 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How is it that this reciprocal action occurred and was made known to the Apache OOo podling ? Oh - it's quite simple, you ASF/OOo made your decision to not include TDF guys, and we (without an endless mail thread)

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Subject: RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice Hi Dennis, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:03 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How is it that this reciprocal action occurred and was made known to the Apache OOo podling ? Oh - it's quite simple, you ASF/OOo made your decision to not include TDF guys

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: Hi Dennis, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:03 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How is it that this reciprocal action occurred and was made known to the Apache OOo podling ?        Oh - it's quite simple, you ASF/OOo made

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Malte Timmermann
What's this thread about - OOo/AOOo/TDF private security lists war reloaded? ;) To sum up: - Apache mentors/PPMCs made clear that only AOOo committers can be on the AOOo Security list (ooo-secur...@incubator.apache.org). Regardless of whether or not this rule makes sense in this special case

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread TJ Frazier
Hi, Malte, On 10/10/2011 12:33, Malte Timmermann wrote: What's this thread about - OOo/AOOo/TDF private security lists war reloaded? ;) To sum up: - Apache mentors/PPMCs made clear that only AOOo committers can be on the AOOo Security list (ooo-secur...@incubator.apache.org). Regardless of

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Malte Timmermann
Hi TJ, On 10.10.2011 18:51, TJ Frazier wrote: Assuming that you are the mt listed as an administrator on the OO.o security project, that should make you an owner of the securityteam ML. In theory - but unfortunatly the list is not but of the security project, but of the WWW project (because

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:19 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: It does not seem reasonable to publicly excoriate AOOo for having a private security list restricted to members while you are simultaneously and without notice proceed to enforce the same policy for the TDF security list. It

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:33 +0200, Malte Timmermann wrote: old/original OOo security list securityt...@openoffice.org. Which of course is highly sub-optimal, since it is an openoffice.org branded list, soon to be Apache owned - which is not neutral. Apparently we can't administer it

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: snip   All I'm doing is suggesting that we treat AOOo security like we do for every other Apache project.        Sounds great - lets have open-ness to other projects, and cross-fertilisation of list composition

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Michael Meeks [mailto:michael.me...@suse.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 13:41 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice [ ... ] Potentially you confuse the issue that was found with the rather broader scope of the fix

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Michael Meeks [mailto:michael.me...@suse.com] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 13:54 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:33 +0200, Malte Timmermann wrote: old/original OOo security list

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Ross Gardler
On 10 October 2011 21:41, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: ...        It seems that are you asserting that the advice from the established Apache security mechanism was to be as insular as possible though; is that really the case ? are all other Apache projects security lists

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 15:58 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice [ ... ] I think it would be good if the PPMC wanted to express to the ooo-security members that they want us to make security collaboration

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Shane Curcuru
(cutting and snipping liberally to get to the worthwhile stuff) On 10/10/2011 7:34 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 10 October 2011 21:41, Michael Meeksmichael.me...@suse.com wrote: ...snip... b) Because other communities exist based on a common code base it makes sense to attempt to build an

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:14 PM, FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr wrote: Good morning, TDF has published a fix for LibO: http://wp.me/p1byPE-bQ Do you know if OOo is impacted too? Thank you Possibly, but without details it is hard to tell. But please note that although the LO press release

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread FR web forum
Anyone can post to anyone's security list. But they are private lists. It is the part where discretion must occur in handling vulnerabilities until the fix is in and a CVE is posted that happens privately and that might work better with some shared membership on the security lists. On

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jürgen Schmidt wrote on 2011-10-06 13:18: If a TDF or ASF list is secondary for me but i would volunteer to join this mailing list to help on this topic in the future. But maybe we should try to keep the existing and knownsecurityt...@openoffice.org mailing list and I see no reason why it

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 6 Oct 2011, at 12:48, Florian Effenberger wrote: Jürgen Schmidt wrote on 2011-10-06 13:18: If a TDF or ASF list is secondary for me but i would volunteer to join this mailing list to help on this topic in the future. But maybe we should try to keep the existing and

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote on 2011-10-06 14:14: Furthermore - there is nothing stopping you from having a knownsecurity@ group more focused on security - and having this as your first (more public) port of call. for years, there has been security@ooo. That group knows each other very

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 6 Oct 2011, at 13:22, Florian Effenberger wrote: Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote on 2011-10-06 14:14: Furthermore - there is nothing stopping you from having a knownsecurity@ group more focused on security - and having this as your first (more public) port of call. for years, there has

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Simon Phipps
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.orgwrote: Reading the exchanges - I think language was getting in the way of things. I really don't think so. I think two issues have been conflated: A: How AOOo manages its own security process. B: How AOOo collaborates

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:27 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.orgwrote: Reading the exchanges - I think language was getting in the way of things. I really don't think so. I think two issues have been conflated: A: How AOOo

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Jürgen Schmidt wrote on 2011-10-06 14:40: My idea is to simply use the existing securityt...@openoffice.org knownsecurityt...@openoffice.org list for collaborative work on this topic. LibreOffice has also a separate security list, right. So i don't see your point here. I proposed that,

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote on 2011-10-06 15:00: Reading the exchanges - I think language was getting in the way of things. no. It was very clearly stated the existing security group would not be used anymore, since less contacts were preferred. It was rather clear, and once again

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Wow, has this thread not gone anywhere, nor been as polite as I'd hope. Fundamentally, the ASF has delegated responsibility for all future Apache OpenOffice releases to the Apache OpenOffice PPMC. I believe and support them having a private security@ list that only PPMC members are

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Jim Jagielski wrote: I agree it needs to be addressed. What is ironic is that this discussion did NOT result in a breakdown of B at all, but rather a breakdown in another entity also not having a policy in place in sharing info with other community members. Hi Jim, since this is ambiguous

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: Wow, has this thread not gone anywhere, nor been as polite as I'd hope. Fundamentally, the ASF has delegated responsibility for all future Apache OpenOffice releases to the Apache OpenOffice PPMC. I believe and

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi - I blame Oracle, it is nearly 4 months and NO domain transfer. On Oct 6, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: I agree it needs to be addressed. What is ironic is that this discussion did NOT result in a breakdown of B at all, but rather a breakdown in another

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Simon Phipps
On 6 Oct 2011, at 16:07, Shane Curcuru wrote: I think we've completely lost sight of B, a place where Apache OpenOffice PPMC members and trusted others of related projects can work together. Given the interrelationships of code between OpenOffice and LibreOffice and others, I would

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Thu, 10/6/11, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi - I blame Oracle, it is nearly 4 months and NO domain transfer. According to an email in this list by Andrew Rist on Fri, 9/9/11: openoffice.org domains transferred to ASF Cheers, Pedro.

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Dave Fisher wrote on 2011-10-06 17:25: When that discussion was settled it seems someone on the TDF side should have taken some initiative to inform AOOo at our list. To not have that happen was not in any spirit of cooperation. as Thorsten said, AOOo was informed. There was one AOOo

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi - I blame Oracle, it is nearly 4 months and NO domain transfer. it doesn't help anybody ;-) On Oct 6, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Jim Jagielski wrote: I agree it needs to be addressed. What is

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:43:57 +0200 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: No, I was personally told that I should not be involved on that list, because of ICLA-PPMC-whatever-abbreviation things and that at Apache things are different. So, don't blame me. My proposal was to

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Dave Fisher wrote: I may remind you that, at the point of responsible disclosure to securityteam@ooo, the ooo-security@apache list was still in the process of being setup/populated, and there was an ongoing policy discussion here. When that discussion was settled it seems someone on the

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 6 October 2011 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Responsible Apache people need to rethink their insistence on their method to the exclusion of all other methods. Please read the comments in this thread by an OOo mentor, Shane Curcuru. Please also see the advice and guidance of

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:06:36 +0100 Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 6 October 2011 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Responsible Apache people need to rethink their insistence on their method to the exclusion of all other methods. Please read the comments in

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Ross Gardler
On 6 October 2011 17:16, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:06:36 +0100 Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 6 October 2011 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Responsible Apache people need to rethink their insistence on their method to the

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi, Ross Gardler wrote on 2011-10-06 18:26: I understand where you are coming from. There is a misunderstanding about The Apache Way. There are very few things that are fixed in stone. However, newcomers often rely on written descriptions of common practice and assume that such a description is

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Dave Fisher
On Oct 6, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 6 October 2011 17:16, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:06:36 +0100 Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 6 October 2011 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: Responsible Apache people need

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 09:16 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice [ ... ] With respect, it is not the tone of my_ emails that need amelioration, but the blanket insistence from some posters

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-06 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi Am 05.10.11 19:14, schrieb FR web forum: Good morning, TDF has published a fix for LibO: http://wp.me/p1byPE-bQ Do you know if OOo is impacted too? As discribed on my homepage (http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/computer_tagebuch.php), I will try to make a patch for the OOo 3.3 for Mac OS X.

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice - Impact on Users

2011-10-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
on users of the software, more can be provided. - Dennis -Original Message- From: FR web forum [mailto:ooofo...@free.fr] Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 01:27 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice Anyone can post to anyone's security list

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Simon Phipps
I've investigated and I am informed by one of the LO developers: The initial report was sent to securityt...@openoffice.org on 25-07-2011, the assigned CVE id was cc'ed there somewhat later on. I posted the 5 patches which in combination would fix it to the list as well. I was informed an

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Dave Fisher
time that either of our projects learn about something like this in a press release. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 12:49 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Dave Fisher
On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:03 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Oct 5, 2011 9:22 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: That information concerning an ApacheOOo representative on securityt...@openoffice.org is apparently inaccurate. I am told that Rob is on that list. Rob, is that correct?

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: To be fair there have been email outages at least twice with openoffice.org - perhaps the messages were lost during that time. Entirely plausible, I agree. So given securityt...@openoffice.org appears to be abandoned,

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
- From: Simon Phipps [mailto:si...@webmink.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 16:01 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:11 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: To be fair there have been email outages at least

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-05 Thread Simon Phipps
On 6 Oct 2011, at 00:25, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Whatever the arrangement is to become, it should not have a single point of failure in achieving coordination on common-mode/mono-culture vulnerabilities. Agreed. Let's design something without one. Anyone can post to anyone's security