Re: 2 moderate (borderline low) docker flaws fixed in >=1.5 and possibly earlier

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

On 03/24/2015 08:44 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kurt Seifried:
>
> > Another example of why embargoes are a bad idea, these issues have been
> > fixed for ages by upstream but fell through the cracks, because embargo!
>
> There is no hard information in those bug reports.  It's not clear
> what, precisely, they are about, and so it is impossible to tell if
> they actually have been fixed.  I appreciate that you clean out old
> stuff, but doing it this way makes it seem you suddenly have developed
> a policy for secrecy around security issues.

tjay@  (our docker guy) verified they were fixed as you can see from his
comments in the bugs.

This is an example of why we need to clean these old things out. Nobody
really cares about them, and in all likelihood they got fixed by upstream.

> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1063550
>
> (CVE-2014-0048)
>
> Could this be a dupe of the index.docker.io registry misconfiguration
> that had at least one redirect to http:// (now fixed) for the actual
> (unverified) image data?

No, this was stuff like downloading debian signing keys over http rather
than https, and other sensitive content in similarly unsafe ways.



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