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Date:      Mon, 12 Apr 2021 21:03:08 -0700
From:      Gordon Tetlow <gordon@tetlows.org>
To:        Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz>
Cc:        Gian Piero Carrubba <gpiero@rm-rf.it>, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-21:08.vm missing in vuxml
Message-ID:  <9695BE88-A3E7-498D-8A5A-92BCB2E79DBD@tetlows.org>
In-Reply-To: <d7cee6e3-f209-3bdd-8df4-7429243d5fe1@quip.cz>
References:  <d7cee6e3-f209-3bdd-8df4-7429243d5fe1@quip.cz>

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> On Apr 12, 2021, at 03:21, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> wrote:
>=20
> =EF=BB=BFOn 11/04/2021 21:49, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
>> * [Sun, Apr 11, 2021 at 09:36:05PM +0200] Miroslav Lachman:
>>>> On 11/04/2021 21:21, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:
>>>>> CCing ports-secteam@ as it seems a more appropriate recipient.
>>>=20
>>> Vulnerabilities in base should be handled by core secteam, not ports sec=
team.
>> The maintainer address for vuxml is ports-secteam@, so my impression is t=
hat entries in vuxml, regardless if they affect base or ports, are managed b=
y them. Am I wrong?
>=20
> Because there are entries mainly for ports and vuxml is port too. But the r=
esponsible side for vulnerabilities in base is Security Officer Team. They a=
re publishing SAs, they should create and submit entries to vuxml. They are a=
lmost always lacking behind, sometimes for months. I tried created patches w=
ith entries in the past because I am the author of base-audit script and mai=
ntainer of the port but then it was waiting for a long time to have it confi=
rmed by Security Officer Team.
>=20
> I fought with this many times.

Hi there!

Secteam has been pretty faithfully putting base issues into vuxml for the pa=
st year at least, thanks to the tireless work by Philip. The current issues w=
ere committed to vuxml 6 days ago. Apparently, the backend that serves the v=
uxml for clients  hasn=E2=80=99t been updated for the ports git transition. T=
here is a pr for that already and hopefully it will be sorted soon.

Regards,
Gordon=



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