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Message-ID: <20080219073544.GA31756@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:35:44 +0100
From: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: code review CVS
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:00:24AM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
I am not sure if a cvs or something like a -AUDITED
branch would be the right way, since it might not be obvious
which older versions were reviewed too if new versions are commited.
Maybe a wiki with patch subdir and link to the reviewed
CVS version/branch will suffice. Need to play around :)
On the other hand if such a project grows you can have a complete distro
you can check out and you always see which parts of a distro or larger project
are reviewed such as apache w/o certain modules. problem is that
such partial reviews may stop to compile upon checkout.
Sebastian
> * [2008-02-18 10:28:36 +0100] Sebastian Krahmer wrote:
>
> >>From my view it would be helpful to have some forum/CVS or whatever
> >where code reviewers can submit the code they already audited along
> >with remarks/exploits/patches etc.
> >So everyone can match this against the version of the OSS project.
> >In an ideal case their latest released version equals the
> >version in the review CVS. It saves also the time to review
> >files again which didnt change during versions.
>
> This is an intriguing idea, but I wonder if a version control system is
> actually required, or if we could use the wiki itself for something like
> this.
>
> A code checkin of audited source might be nice for "pristine" code
> purposes, but then we almost duplicate an author's scm system.
>
> Would not a simple list of software be sufficient? For instance,
> something that listed:
>
> - software name
> - audited version
> - audit date
> - who did the audit
> - results of the audit (links to patches, whatever)
>
> Most authors keep old packages kicking around, so I don't think we need
> an scm for this. I mean, if you review foo-1.1 and it's ok, and someone
> indicates a vuln in foo-1.3, then one could easily download both foo-1.1
> and foo-1.3 and just do a diff to see what's changed, right?
>
> Or do I miss something where a scm would be really valuable?
>
> --
> Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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