[debian-mysql] Request for release team decision on MySQL and MariaDB [was: Re: Bug#793316: Bug#793316: transition: mysql-5.6]

[Otto Kekäläinen]

2016-01-11 13:54 GMT+02:00 Norvald H. Ryeng <norvald.ryeng at oracle.com>:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 2015 13:28:18 +0100, Otto Kekäläinen <otto at seravo.fi> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> 2015-12-23 16:39 GMT+02:00 Norvald H. Ryeng <norvald.ryeng at oracle.com>:
>> ..
>>>
>>> I know we are a bit tight with info about security issues upstream, but
>>> all
>>> security bugfixes are available at https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server
>>> as
>>> individual commits, and a list of CVEs fixed is reported quarterly
>>> according
>>> to a published schedule. Apparently that's not enough.
>>
>>
>> As a side note related to this, can you please tell us in what commit
>> CVE-2015-4913 and CVE-2015-4737 were fixed? You probably have access to
>> some
>> internal security tracker where you can look this up, and both CVEs are
>> already relatively old, so you would not be releasing any sensitive
>> security
>> info.
>
>
> All I have is what is public: CVE-2015-4913 was included in the latest
> Critical Patch Update in October and was fixed in 5.5.46 and 5.6.27.
> CVE-2015-4737 was included in the July Critical Patch Update and was fixed
> in 5.5.44 and 5.6.24. Since Debian is already at 5.5.46, these don't affect
> Debian any more.
>
> If you're asking because you want to know if these have been fixed in
> MariaDB, I think you should ask MariaDB upstream instead.

Nobody outside Oracle can answer this. Oracle has reserved certain CVE
numbers for their use and as there no details in the CVE entries (just
a version number when it was fixed) nobody outside Oracle can actually
tell what the security issue or the fix was. Above you indicated that
those fixes are visible in individual commits, so I was trying my luck
if you would be able to give the information which commits those CVEs
are.

I guess Oracle's policy here is security by obscurity, so we will
never learn what those CVEs where actually about..?