Security Working Group Meeting - Wed 14 October - request for security bug tracker

[Joseph Reynolds]

On 10/15/20 9:14 AM, Joseph Reynolds wrote:
> On 10/13/20 2:06 PM, Parth Shukla wrote:
>> This is a reminder of the OpenBMC Security Working Group meeting 
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>> This is a reminder of the OpenBMC Security Working Group meeting 
>> scheduled for this Wednesday October 14 at 10:00am PDT.
>>
>> We'll discuss the following items on the agenda 
>> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b7x9BaxsfcukQDqbvZsU2ehMq4xoJRQvLxxsDUWmAOI/edit>, 
>> and anything else that comes up:
>>
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> Two subtopics were discussed:
>
> 2A. We reviewed the security reporting and bug fixing process. 
> Specifically:
>
>  * The OpenBMC security response team:
> https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/security/obmc-security-response-team.md
>
>  * This is what github advocates using:
>    https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/security/advisories
>
>  * What tools do we use to:
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>     * Identify which open source pkgs are used in an openbmc build,
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>     * Identify security bugs in those packages, and
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>     * Ensure that we pull in fixes or otherwise mitigate the problem.
>
>
> 2B. Given that OpenBMC is a Linux Foundation project, what resources 
> does the Linux Foundation offer?  Specifically, we want a private 
> secure bug tracker for the OpenBMC security response team to use.

Kurt,

The OpenBMC security response team could benefit from a bug tracker to 
track security vulnerabilities that were reported to the project and not 
yet disclosed.  This is to support [1] and would have to be private and 
secure.
What is commonly used for this?  Can we do it at the project level? Can 
LF help?

- Joseph

[1]: 
https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/security/obmc-security-response-team.md


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>> Access, agenda and notes are in the wiki:
>> https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc/wiki/Security-working-group
>>
>> Regards,
>> Parth
>