Re: [Debian-audit] Debian Security Audit Project

From: Ulf Härnhammar <Ulf.Harnhammar.9485_at_student.uu.se>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 13:57:16 +0100

I'm replying to this, since nobody else has.

Quoting "Dafoe, Tim (MBS)" <Tim.Dafoe_at_mbs.gov.on.ca>:

> I'm looking
> for information regarding proactive efforts (such as those I've seen in
> other OSS groups) in
> the Debian project for vulnerability detection, code audit, etc. --
> including how your auditing
> team conducts the work (i.e. module by module, according to a schedule, or
> through some
> other means) and the frequency of reviews.

We're kind of unorganized, so we don't have any schedules or anything. We've
been working on setuid and setgid programs a lot, and we've improved the
situation with such programs in Debian GNU/Linux a lot IMHO. We've also audited
a bunch of network related programs, and we've done some work on automated
auditing scripts and programs that interface to several auditing programs at
once.

We have about 4 people regularly auditing programs, some of whom also work on
other things like programming the earlier mentioned software.

If we could start co-operating more instead of me sitting at home doing stuff
and Steve and Max et al sitting at home doing stuff without much discussion or
co-operation, we could really have an interesting Project.

-- 
Ulf Harnhammar
http://www.advogato.org/person/metaur/
Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 12:58:33 GMT

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