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Simplify the advisory format by dropping the -Backport tags and instead stick to using just the -Commit tags. To identify backports, put a substring of git-describe into the release version in the brackets next to the commit ref. This way, it not only identifies that the fix (or regression) is on the release/2.YY/master branch, it also disambiguates regressions/fixes in the branch from those in the tarball. Add a README to make it easier for consumers to understand the format. Additionally, the Release wiki needs to be updated to inform the release manager to: 1. Generate a NEWS snipped from the advisories directory AND 2. on release/2.YY/master, replace the advisories directory with a text file pointing to the advisories directory in master so that we don't have to update multiple locations. Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org> Reviewed-by: Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
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GNU C Library Security Advisory Format
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Security advisories in this directory follow a simple git commit log
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format, with a heading and free-format description augmented with tags
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to allow parsing key information. References to code changes are
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specific to the glibc repository and follow a specific format:
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Tag-name: <commit-ref> (release-version)
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The <commit-ref> indicates a specific commit in the repository. The
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release-version indicates the publicly consumable release in which this
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commit is known to exist. The release-version is derived from the
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git-describe format, (i.e. stripped out from glibc-2.34.NNN-gxxxx) and
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is of the form 2.34-NNN. If the -NNN suffix is absent, it means that
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the change is in that release tarball, otherwise the change is on the
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release/2.YY/master branch and not in any released tarball.
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The following tags are currently being used:
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CVE-Id:
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This is the CVE-Id assigned under the CVE Program
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(https://www.cve.org/).
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Public-Date:
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The date this issue became publicly known.
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Vulnerable-Commit:
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The commit that introduced this vulnerability. There could be multiple
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entries, one for each release branch in the glibc repository; the
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release-version portion of this tag should tell you which branch this is
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on.
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Fix-Commit:
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The commit that fixed this vulnerability. There could be multiple
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entries for each release branch in the glibc repository, indicating that
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all of those commits contributed to fixing that issue in each of those
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branches.
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Adding an Advisory
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------------------
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An advisory for a CVE needs to be added on the master branch in two steps:
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1. Add the text of the advisory without any Fix-Commit tags along with
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the fix for the CVE. Add the Vulnerable-Commit tag, if applicable.
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The advisories directory does not exist in release branches, so keep
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the advisory text commit distinct from the code changes, to ease
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backports. Ask for the GLIBC-SA advisory number from the security
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team.
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2. Finish all backports on release branches and then back on the msater
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branch, add all commit refs to the advisory using the Fix-Commit
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tags. Don't bother adding the release-version subscript since the
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next step will overwrite it.
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3. Run the process-advisories.sh script in the scripts directory on the
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advisory:
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scripts/process-advisories.sh update GLIBC-SA-YYYY-NNNN
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(replace YYYY-NNNN with the actual advisory number).
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4. Verify the updated advisory and push the result.
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Getting a NEWS snippet from advisories
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Run:
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scripts/process-advisories.sh news
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and copy the content into the NEWS file.
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