[Starlingx-discuss] CVE Support and Scanning

[Victor Rodriguez]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 4:24 PM Young, Ken <Ken.Young at windriver.com> wrote:
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> See inline.
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> On 2019-02-04, 2:26 PM, "Victor Rodriguez" <vm.rod25 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:49 PM Young, Ken <Ken.Young at windriver.com> wrote:
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>     > Team,
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>     > A “Lights On” feature for the 2019.05 release is “CVE Upgrades”.  This feature will enable ongoing security updates for the master branch and selectively provide CVE corrective content to supported releases.  The first step for this feature is to define a policy.  With the help of the Starling X security team, a draft of this policy has been provided below:
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>     > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StarlingX/Security/CVE_Support_Policy
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>     > Please review and provide comments.  I plan to reserve a spot on the Community call for any discussion on Wednesday and start the discussion with the build team to identify tools to support this policy on Thursday.
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>     Question on the last slide you propose a formula as
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>     Criticality >= 7
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>     What standard are you plan to use? CVSS v3.0 or v2.0
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> I am suggesting we start with v2.  I need to look into v3 a little more.
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>     For example, taking this MariaDB
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>     https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15365
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>     Base Score: 8.8 HIGH in V3 and 6.5 MEDIUM in V2
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>     My recommendation will be to use the highest one despite if the score
>     came from V2 or V3
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>     However, I think we should specify that somewhere
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> Agreed.
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>     One more question, when you said critical issues are fixed if
>     corrections are available upstream it means that ( taking the previous
>     example ) if MariaDB provides a Patch, is merged in master and
>     released in the latest release,  like in the previous example :
>     https://github.com/MariaDB/server/commit/0b5a5258abbeaf8a0c3a18c7e753699787fdf46e
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>     But CentOS has not taken it yet, are we OK to apply this patch in STX
>     until CentOS apply in incoming future?
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> We will wait for CentOS.  We are in the process of patch elimination.  I do not to carry more.
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Hi Ken

This is the link to the tool that we could use to catch the CVEs

https://github.com/clearlinux/cve-check-tool

Hoep it helps as an starting point

Regards

Victor
>     Regards
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>     Victor R
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>     > Regards,
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>     > Ken Y
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