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Bug#783232: release-notes: two comments about the security section



Hi all,

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 06:02:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 04:58:18PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote:
> > Control: tags -1 moreinfo
> > 
> > On 2015-04-24 11:57, Romain Francoise wrote:
> > > Package: release-notes
> > > Severity: normal
> > > 
> > > As mentioned on IRC, I reviewed the security section of the "What's new
> > > in Debian 8" chapter and:
> > > - it mentions the protected_symlinks feature of the kernel as new, but
> > >   afaik it was already enabled in wheezy
> > > - it advertises hardening-wrapper, but it's planned for deprecation or
> > >   removal in stretch
> > > 
> > > (X-Debbugs-CC: team@security.debian.org)
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for the review.
> > 
> > The kernel change is to #774117.  For the hardening-wrapper, I have
> > traced the latest change to #772694.  However, it seems to just be
> > changes to an existing section that might (or might not) have carried
> > over from Wheezy.
> > 
> >  * I will await the security team before doing any changes.
> 
> These were in fact carried over from wheezy and Romain's comments
> are confirmed to be correct.

But haven't we filled #774117 after the pevious Security team meeting
to mention that /tmp-related bugs which are rendered non-exploitable
by this mechanism not (anymore) as security vulnerabilities?

#774117 was explicitly about to cover this and the
debian-security-support package in the jessie release notes. So at
least this one I guess we want to keep.

Regards,
Salvatore

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