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Message-ID: <551E2093.5000902@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 01:09:39 -0400
From: Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: membership request to the closed linux-distros
security mailing list
On 02/04/15 07:43 PM, Seth Arnold wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 02:00:29PM +0100, Sona Sarmadi wrote:
>> On behalf of Enea Software AB, I would like to request membership to
>> the closed linux-distros security mailing list.
>
> Speaking strictly for myself, I'm still somewhat skeptical; the security
> announce archives http://mail.lists.enea.com/pipermail/security-announce/
> do show some security updates, but (guessing) 15% of the actual patch
> links I tried to follow no longer exist.
>
> Furthermore, the advisories all suggest downloading patches via http and
> offer no mechanism to validate the patches before applying them. Consider
> this recent advisory:
> http://mail.lists.enea.com/pipermail/security-announce/20150326/000064.html
>
> - there's no gpg signature on this advisory
> - there's no cryptographic checksums in the advisory to authenticate
> the patch even if the advisory were signed
> - there's no ascii-armored signatures in the patches
> - there's no detached signatures at
> http://linux.enea.com/5.0-beta-m400/patches/
> or at
> http://linux.enea.com/4.0/patches/
>
> If downloading patches and applying them by hand is really the
> distribution model Enea has chosen, then it feels like the provenance
> of updates is seriously lacking.
>
> In my opinion, until some more of the security basics are covered,
> joining linux-distros@ is premature.
I guess Ubuntu has to be dropped from the linux-distros then, because
www.ubuntu.com appears to be http-only and the ISO download is entirely
insecure. The security notices are also served insecurely there:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/
Am I missing something... ? It doesn't make much sense to criticize this
when you folks are doing the same. I do get the impression that Enea
Linux is handling security poorly (where are all of the other issues?)
but this bothered me.
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