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Message-id: <1203619493.27378.TMDA@linsec.ca>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:43:17 -0700
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...sec.ca>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: code review CVS
* [2008-02-21 08:49:52 +0000] Mark J Cox wrote:
>> hahah... as Mark can attest, you're not the only one. I've had to email
>> him a few times looking for some obscure src.rpm.
>
> We give the full path in our emailed advisories (except for the cases where
> we are shipping something not open source like java/acroread) but the paths
> are not in the web based versions. So
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/ since Nov 2007, or for older
> stuff http://www.redhat.com/archives/enterprise-watch-list/
>
> Once you get a rpm then unpacking it without installing it is easy:
> rpm2cpio fn.rpm | cpio --make-directories --extract
>
> And we nearly always ship the pristine upstream tarball along with each
> patch separately (exception being things like OpenSSL).
>
> This is definately material for a 'how to find out how the vendor fixed
> this' page.
Looks like Kees beat me to it:
http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/distro-patches
I've added Red Hat to this list based on the above info.
--
Vincent Danen @ http://linsec.ca/
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