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authorJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2006-08-17 20:50:19 +0000
committerJoey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>2006-08-17 20:50:19 +0000
commit385f3387fcf000b5796b9902cc5dc1681dc0758a (patch)
tree5832da52e7a5df6f0d0029e36715310db1ed5778
parent112b57a3f5df35bd37cbe1561f15248e1d35e4c2 (diff)
update for tracker changes
git-svn-id: svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/secure-testing@4589 e39458fd-73e7-0310-bf30-c45bca0a0e42
-rw-r--r--doc/narrative_introduction73
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 48 deletions
diff --git a/doc/narrative_introduction b/doc/narrative_introduction
index a0127fc0f1..067459461e 100644
--- a/doc/narrative_introduction
+++ b/doc/narrative_introduction
@@ -265,26 +265,34 @@ Generated Reports
-----------------
All of this tracking information gets automatically parsed and
compared against madison to determine what has been fixed and what is
-still waiting, this results in this page:
+still waiting, this results in this website:
-http://spohr.debian.org/~joeyh/testing-security.html
+http://security-tracker.debian.net/
-This page tells us a number of things, for example:
-
-abiword 2.2.10-1 needed, have 2.2.7-3 for CAN-2005-2964
-
-This tells us that we know that this fix has been applied in debian
-package version 2.2.10-1, but testing only has 2.2.7-3. It has links to
-the reason why this hasn't entered testing yet, as well as the CAN
-reference at Mitre (given different background colors according to the
-severity). The ones with bugs have links directly to the bugs that have
-been filed. Additionally cross-references for DSAs are generated.
-
-At the bottom is a legend detailing the severity levels, the number of
-unfixed holes currently in testing, the number of holes that have been
-fixed in unstable that haven't migrated to testing, and the number of
-TODO items that we have to process still.
+It incorporates package lists and parses distribution lists and can
+thus be used to
+- Present the security history of a package
+- Provide overviews of vulnerable packages in stable, testing, sid and
+ oldstable (it still has some false positives, wrt packages in
+ stable that are present in stable, but not vulnerable, but these
+ will be ironed out soon). The oldstable data is likely inaccurate.
+- Generate a list of packages that are subject to security problems, but
+ stuck in testing migration due to problems with the dependency chain
+ and thus candidates for a DTSA
+- Generate a list of TODO issues that need to be adressed
+- Generate a list of packages that will enter Debian soon and need to
+ be checked for security problems
+- Generate a list of provisional IDs that need to be turned into proper
+ CVE entries
+- Show some potential problems in the data pool (e.g. misspelled package
+ names not found in the packages list, or potentially missing epochs)
+For every security problem it displays
+- The CVE information
+- A severity assessment by NVD
+- Cross references to DTSAs, DSAs and bugs in the BTS
+- The status of a security problem in stable, oldstable, testing and sid
+- Additional notes from our tracker
The DSA list
------------
@@ -319,37 +327,6 @@ The bin/dsa2list script can be used to generate a template for a new
DSA entry once the official DSA is published on the web. You should
not blindly trust the script output and double-check it, though.
-The security bug tracker
-------------------------
-There is a more detailed tracker that provides a lot more views into this
-information, its here:
-http://idssi.enyo.de/tracker/
-
-It incorporates package lists and parses distribution lists and can
-thus be used to
-- Present the security history of a package
-- Provide overviews of vulnerable packages in stable, testing, sid and
- oldstable (it still has some false positives, wrt packages in
- stable that are present in stable, but not vulnerable, but these
- will be ironed out soon). The oldstable data is likely inaccurate.
-- Generate a list of packages that are subject to security problems, but
- stuck in testing migration due to problems with the dependency chain
- and thus candidates for a DTSA
-- Generate a list of TODO issues that need to be adressed
-- Generate a list of packages that will enter Debian soon and need to
- be checked for security problems
-- Generate a list of provisional IDs that need to be turned into proper
- CVE entries
-- Show some potential problems in the data pool (e.g. misspelled package
- names not found in the packages list, or potentially missing epochs)
-
-For every security problem it displays
-- The CVE information
-- A severity assessment by NVD
-- Cross references to DTSAs, DSAs and bugs in the BTS
-- The status of a security problem in stable, oldstable, testing and sid
-- Additional notes from our tracker
-
Following up on security issues
-------------------------------
By simply loading this page and doing a little gardening of the

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