I can help On 5/20/07, Daniel Drake wrote: > > Anyone interested in contributing the Gentoo kernel security project? > > Basic roles here are to handle vulnerabilities (both minor and major) in > the kernel. The issues come in from databases such as cve.mitre.org, > usually with patches, and you have to coordinate those patches flowing > into the portage tree. > > The usual process is to have a bug on the Gentoo bugzilla per security > report. Initially you get me to include the patch in genpatches, then > you CC maintainers of all other affected kernels and pester them until > they have fixed their kernel, either by including the newer genpatches > or by adding the patch individually. > > This isn't a terribly interesting task, but is important and we're > behind on issue tracking here. The thing that will make it interesting > is that after getting a grasp of how the system works, we are looking > for someone to develop software to help us track the security bugs and > help communicate that info to users (who typically want to know when a > new kernel fixes a security issue, so that they can upgrade). This > software would probably be web-based. > > Anyone interested? > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/security/kernel.xml > > Thanks, > Daniel > -- > gentoo-kernel@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Registered Linux User #392061 counter.li.org -------- 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -------- Roses are Red Violets are Blue In Soviet Russia Poem Writes YOU!