Fink

Security Policy - 5. Sending notifications

Some users might choose not to update their software too frequently. To ensure that those who install their packages from source are using updated packages which have been reported to have security issues as soon as possible, a maintainer may call for a notification to be sent to the Fink announcement list.

5.1 Who may send them?

These announcements may only be sent by the Fink Security Team. Most announcement will be sent from dmalloc@users.sourceforge.net signed by the PGP key with the fingerprint:

The above is intentionally not marked as a link.

Other authorised Team members are: (here you add your email + public key like I did above)

peter@pogma.com signed by the PGP key with the fingerprint:

ranger@befunk.com signed by the PGP key with the fingerprint:

5.2 How to submit

To ensure that a common look for security notifications is met, all security notices must follow the following common template.

 ID: FINK-YYYY-MMDD-NN 
                        Reported: YYYY-MM-DD 
                        Updated:  YYYY-MM-DD 
                        Package:  package-name
                        Affected: <= versionid
                        Maintainer: maintainer-name
                        Tree(s): 10.3/stable, 10.3/unstable, 10.2-gcc3.3/stable,10.2-gcc3.3/unstable
                        Mac OS X version: 10.3, 10.2 
                        Fix: patch|upstream 
                        Updated by: maintainer|forced update (Email)
                        Description: A short description describing the issue.
                        References: KEYWORD (see above) 
			Ref-URL: URL 
			

A sample report could look somewhat like this:

 ID: FINK-2004-06-01 
                        Reported:             2004-06-09 
                        Updated:              2004-06-09 
                        Package:              cvs
                        Affected:             <= 1.11.16, <= 1.12.8
                        Maintainer:           Sylvain Cuaz 
                        Tree(s):    10.3/stable, 10.3/unstable, 10.2-gcc3.3/stable,10.2-gcc3.3/unstable 
                        Mac OS X version: 10.3, 10.2 
                        Fix: upstream
                        Updated by: forced update (dmalloc@users.sourceforge.net)
                        Description: Multiple vulnerabilities in CVS found by Ematters
                        Security. 
			References: BID 
                        Ref-URL:    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10499 
                        References: CVE 
                        Ref-URL:    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0414
                        References: CVE 
                        Ref-URL:    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0416
                        References: CVE 
                        Ref-URL:    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0417
                        References: CVE 
                        Ref-URL:    http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0418
                        References: FULLDISCURL 
                        Ref-URL:    http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-June/022441.html
                        References: MISC 
                        Ref-URL:    http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/092004.html 

Please note that the Affected keyword refers to all vulnerable software versions not only those that might be packaged for Fink. The sample report shows this clearly.