Security issue reporting mechanism
Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.gdb.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi gdb hackers, Because we approve bugzilla account requests we (sourceware overseers, specifically the admin-requests team) get contacted from time to time by people wanting to report what they believe is a security issue in GDB. Although the top-level SECURITY.txt says to look under the gdb directory for a similarly named file, there is no such file: https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/tree/SECURITY.txt For now we have each time briefly discussed such issues on irc.libera.chat in the #gdb channel to see how people feel about forwarding a report to either the binutils team, just ask people to report the issue publicly in bugzilla or ask the reporter to contact [email protected] (which has a good reputation for handling and coordinating such things with the other distros). But it would be much more efficient if GDB could have a documented security issue reporting mechanism and document what kind of issues they consider just bugs that can be reported publicly. You could take a look at binutils or elfutils for inspiration: https://sourceware.org/cgit/binutils-gdb/tree/binutils/SECURITY.txt https://sourceware.org/cgit/elfutils/tree/SECURITY Cheers, Mark