On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 08:11:14AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
On 07/10/2013 05:02 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 12:59:48PM +0200, Ján Tomko wrote:
>> CVE-2013-2230
>
> This should be in the subject line so it is more visible.
Oh well, it was pushed without the subject line change. But I noticed
that DV had added a signed tag to our previous CVE (2013-2218, just
before 1.1.0), and that is also easily visible if you use 'tig', so I've
just finished creating lots of other signed tags for CVE fixes over the
last three years:
CVE-2011-1146 CVE-2012-3411 CVE-2013-0170 CVE-2013-2230
CVE-2011-1486 CVE-2012-3445 CVE-2013-1962
CVE-2011-2178 CVE-2012-4423 CVE-2013-2218
Since signed tags can be added after the fact, they are a nice way to
consistently mark bug fixes, regardless of whether the commit itself was
aware of a CVE number (for example, some of those tags are on commits
that were made public long before a CVE was assigned, because no one
realized the exploit until after the patch was pushed).
+1 I think at this point it is the best way.
The rationale too, is that sometimes we may commit a fix, and the CVE
about it gets assigned later. With tags we can always add that extra
information. So let's try to be consistent and always use git tags
in the future. Those tags should be PGP signed (as you did :)
Thanks for doing the history work :-)
Daniel
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