[Secure-testing-team] Re: [Secure-testing-commits] t-s bits from DebConf5

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Mon Jul 25 23:20:15 UTC 2005


On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 01:54:11AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2005 at 10:39:33AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> >  - Ubuntu's security guy, Martin Pitt, was also there, and we also
> >    discussed ways to work with Ubuntu. He does more or less the same
> >    kind of work we do for tracking vulnerabilities, although he tries to
> >    automate the tracking of closed vulns via grepping changelogs with
> >    his script, as has been discussed here before. No firm conclusions
> >    were reached, and some kind of cooperation should be followed up on.
> 
> This works for Ubuntu, as all USN and their relative changelog entries
> are issued by a single person, but might trigger to many false positives
> for sid with it's plethora of maintainers. I'd recommend to leave this
> with manual tracking.

This is actually used most often to see whether the Debian maintainer
already noted the fix, right Martin?

> >    Not sure if Steven's email address is publicly
> >    available
> 
> Steven M. Christey <coley at linus.mitre.org>  ?

That's him.

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 - mdz




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