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Re: CVE for Kali Linux
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 20:27:40 -0600
On 03/21/2015 08:04 PM, Justin Steven wrote:
Kali, like its upstream (Debian), signs packages using gpg. https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt Kali provides sha1sums over https at their site to verify the .iso download, as well as providing gpg signatures for .iso files -- Justin
So I guess we enter uncharted territory here. So my thought is this: Vendor has front page that recommends doing something completely insane and insecure (http/md5s/etc.). On the back end (good lucking finding this) vendor does something sort of secure (gpg signing of packages, no clue if key distribution is secure) but this is not really documented well. Does this win a CVE or not? I personally think yes, yes it does. Mitre as always is the final arbiter of what is cool. I mean what is a CVE. -- Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud PGP A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993
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- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Kurt Seifried (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Daniel Micay (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Russ Allbery (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Daniel Micay (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Daniel Micay (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Florian Weimer (Mar 22)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Daniel Micay (Mar 22)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Kurt Seifried (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Amos Jeffries (Mar 22)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Daniel Micay (Mar 22)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Justin Steven (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Michael Samuel (Mar 21)
- Re: CVE for Kali Linux Florian Weimer (Mar 22)