[mapserver-dev] Motion: Updating the security reporting and workflow process

Jeff McKenna jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com
Fri Feb 28 09:49:32 PST 2020


GeoServer leverages a 'geoserver-security@' list for their PSC security 
discussions, similar to the MapServer alias (this was my logic in 
implementing the new alias).   -jeff



On 2020-02-28 1:47 p.m., Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Yes in fact it was me who set that up for all projects , but the new 
> alias is specific to MapServer PSC (that was my logic for both).  -jeff
> 
> 
> 
> On 2020-02-28 1:44 p.m., Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> There is also the 
>> https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/security-priv mailing list to 
>> report this kind of issues, it has worked ok in the past.
>>
>> On 2/28/20 6:36 PM, Jeff McKenna wrote:
>>> There is now a new alias that users can send an initial report to, 
>>> that forwards to all PSC members: mapserver-security (at) osgeo (dot) 
>>> org
>>>
>>> SteveL has also setup a private 'mapserver-private' repository on 
>>> Github, to handle valid security reports, privately.
>>>
>>> So therefore:
>>>
>>> Motion: update documentation 
>>> (https://mapserver.org/development/bugs.html) to list the steps to 
>>> report a security concern, mentioning the first step of sending 
>>> report to mapserver-security (at), and second step of a PSC member 
>>> creating a ticket in the 'mapserver-private' repository.
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> -jeff
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> If approved I volunteer to update docs now.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
> 
> 


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Jeff McKenna
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