Re: [Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-24 Thread Brett Cannon
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:43, Mart Somermaa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When I looked through that list a week or so ago, I noticed that some >> issues were obviously related to the Python distribution itself, but others >> were appeared to be Python application problems. > > I looked through th

[Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-24 Thread Mart Somermaa
When I looked through that list a week or so ago, I noticed that some issues were obviously related to the Python distribution itself, but others were appeared to be Python application problems. I looked through the list now and weeded out irrelevant CVEs (by putting them into the ignore list

Re: [Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-24 Thread Terry Reedy
Mart Somermaa wrote: I created a script that parses the http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=python Python-related CVE list and classifies the CVEs as follows: * "ok" -- CVE has references to bugs.python.org * "warnings" -- CVE has references to Python SVN revisions or an issue in

[Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-24 Thread Mart Somermaa
I created a script that parses the http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=python Python-related CVE list and classifies the CVEs as follows: * "ok" -- CVE has references to bugs.python.org * "warnings" -- CVE has references to Python SVN revisions or an issue in bugs.python.org refers

Re: [Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Gisle Aas
Perl had a few CVE because of its rmtree implementation. Removing trees is risky business if root runs the function while other users have access to manipulate the tree. Python's shutils.rmtree seems to have many of the same issues. For instance http://bugs.debian.org/286922 shows how to ge

[Python-Dev] CVE tracking

2008-11-20 Thread Mart Somermaa
Hello! Does someone systematically track the CVE vulnerability list? Ideally, Python security officers would have close collaboration with whoever manages CVE (like distribution security officers do), so that * every CVE issue would have a corresponding ticket on Python bug tracker (perhaps