14:25:50 #startmeeting Security Team Meeting - Agenda: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security_Team_meetings 14:25:50 Meeting started Thu Apr 7 14:25:50 2016 UTC. The chair is c0mrad3. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot. 14:25:50 Useful Commands: #action #agreed #halp #info #idea #link #topic. 14:25:50 The meeting name has been set to 'security_team_meeting_-_agenda:_https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/security_team_meetings' 14:26:25 #chair Astradeus 14:26:25 Current chairs: Astradeus c0mrad3 14:27:14 i think we can skip roll call ;) 14:27:36 #topic Follow up on last week's tasks 14:28:38 #meetingname Fedora Security Team 14:28:38 The meeting name has been set to 'fedora_security_team' 14:29:22 neither of d-caf, Sparks, pjp or zoglesby are in the channel, so we do not have any updates from any tasks 14:30:18 yes I am not sure where to get the Outstanding BZ Tickets Astradeus 14:30:37 ah, mhayden sent them out via email 14:30:57 there is a script somewhere querying the bugzilla and compiling a report 14:32:03 #link https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/fedora-security-team.git/tree/report_generator.py 14:32:03 Astradeus: let's hit the open floor and discuss something else 14:32:42 lets do the numbers first 14:32:50 Astradeus: I will try running the script and post it here 14:32:57 ack 14:33:08 #topic Outstanding BZ Tickets 14:33:22 +Tickets by Severity-+-------+---------+ 14:33:23 | Severity | Tickets | Owned | Unowned | 14:33:23 +----------+---------+-------+---------+ 14:33:23 | medium | 495 | 40 | 455 | 14:33:23 | low | 167 | 13 | 154 | 14:33:25 | high | 73 | 29 | 44 | 14:33:27 +----------+---------+-------+---------+ 14:34:17 Astradeus: cool! 14:35:04 tickets are increasing since the last week 14:35:12 c0mrad3: are you already on the mailinglist? you should have received the mail from mhayden. 14:35:52 yes, medium and high have increased, and low tickets have decreased 14:35:53 Astradeus: just now looked at them it's like 43 min ago 14:38:17 Critical 0 (0), Important 73 (+6), Moderate 495 (+10), Low 167 (-4), Total 735 (+12) 14:39:45 i do have one ticket i probably can close this week without additional support, but I still hope the mentoring thing works out sometime this week :) 14:39:49 next topic? 14:40:21 #topic Open floor discussion/questions/comments 14:40:53 Astradeus: did you contact your mentor on fixing your first bug ? 14:41:50 no, we did not write this week - it also has been quite busy from my dayjob, so i did not have too much time myself. 14:43:09 how about you? 14:43:29 me too did not email him I was attending a hackthon, I will email him after this meeting 14:43:58 so busy too :) 14:44:57 Also need to read a lot of wiki and get used to the work cycle, and I have many doubts in my mind to clear 14:45:24 any questions which might be quick to answer? 14:46:25 like what should we do if the vuln is fixed upstream in a newer version, should be package the newer one and send it as security update ? 14:47:17 first contact the maintainer, usually the maintainer then builds a new update 14:47:36 what if they won't patch for the current version of the software ? 14:47:49 it is sent as a regular update currently, because there ist no special treatment for security patches currently 14:48:16 we give them some timeframe we wait for a response 14:48:55 so all we do is look for security bugs and make sure that the maintainer updates the new package without the vuln ? 14:49:04 if there is no answer and the vulnerability is serious, people from the proven-packagers-group can also package software and push it to the mirrors 14:49:12 primarily, yes 14:49:35 okay! any other things that we do ? 14:51:03 currently thinking about ways how to push security patches faster through the mirrors 14:51:28 ack, let end the meeting 14:51:46 as the fedora security team is still building up - how to establish trust 14:52:24 because e.g. the redhat security people or the debian security people do get information way earlier (embargoed vulns) 14:52:48 yes I get it the vulns shouldn't be shown to every one 14:53:20 so fedora could be faster to push patches if we have a group which is trusted to see embargoed vulns 14:53:55 (at least for some time - i'm definitely on the side that vulns should be public after some reasonable timeframe) 14:54:18 i think those two things are currently the main issues 14:54:31 only after they are fixed / updates are available 14:54:43 they should be made public 14:55:08 ah, and maybe to try to be advisors for security questsions other fedora-groups might have 14:55:39 *questions 14:56:07 or questions regular fedora-users might have 14:56:09 #endmeeting