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<h1>Security Process</h1>
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<ul id="toc"></ul>
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<p>
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The libvirt project believes in responsible disclosure of
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security problems, to allow vendors time to prepare and
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distribute patches for problems ahead of their publication.
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This page describes how the process works and how to report
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potential security issues.
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<h2><a id="reporting">Reporting security issues</a></h2>
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<p>
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In the event that a bug in libvirt is found which is
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believed to have (potential) security implications there
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is a dedicated contact to which a bug report / notification
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should be directed. Send an email with as many details of
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the problem as possible (ideally with steps to reproduce)
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to the following email address:
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<pre>
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<a href="mailto:libvirt-security@redhat.com">libvirt-security@redhat.com</a></pre>
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NB. while this email address is backed by a mailing list, it
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is invitation only and moderated for non-members. As such you
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will receive an auto-reply indicating the report is held for
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moderation. Postings by non-members will be approved by a
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moderator and the reporter copied on any replies.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="secnotice">Security notices</a></h2>
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<p>
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Information for all historical security issues is maintained in
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machine parsable format in the
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<a href="https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-security-notice">libvirt-security-notice GIT repository</a> and
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<a href="https://security.libvirt.org">published online</a>
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in text, HTML and XML formats. Security notices are published
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on the <a href="https://libvirt.org/contact.html#email">libvirt-announce mailing list</a>
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when any embargo is lifted, or as soon as triaged if already
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public knowledge.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="seclist">Security team</a></h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt security team is made up of a subset of the libvirt
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core development team which covers the various distro maintainers
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of libvirt, along with nominated security engineers representing
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the various vendors who distribute libvirt. The team is responsible
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for analysing incoming reports from users to identify whether a
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security problem exists and its severity. It then works to produce
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a fix for all official stable branches of libvirt and coordinate
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embargo dates between vendors to allow simultaneous release of the
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fix by all affected parties.
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</p>
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<p>
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If you are a security representative of a vendor distributing
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libvirt and would like to join the security team, send an email
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to the afore-mentioned security address. Typically an existing
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member of the security team will have to vouch for your credentials
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before membership is approved. All members of the security team
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are <strong>required to respect the embargo policy</strong>
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described below.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="embargo">Publication embargo policy</a></h2>
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The libvirt security team operates a policy of
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsible_disclosure">responsible disclosure</a>.
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As such any security issue reported, that is not already publicly disclosed
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elsewhere, will have an embargo date assigned. Members of the security team agree
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not to publicly disclose any details of the security issue until the embargo
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date expires.
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The general aim of the team is to have embargo dates which
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are two weeks or less in duration. If a problem is identified
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with a proposed patch for a security issue, requiring further
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investigation and bug fixing, the embargo clock may be restarted.
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In exceptional circumstances longer initial embargoes may be
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negotiated by mutual agreement between members of the security
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team and other relevant parties to the problem. Any such extended
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embargoes will aim to be at most one month in duration.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="cve">CVE allocation</a></h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt security team will associate each security issue with
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a CVE number. The CVE numbers will usually be allocated by one of
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the vendor security engineers on the security team.
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</p>
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<h2><a id="branches">Branch fixing policy</a></h2>
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<p>
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The libvirt community maintains one or more stable release branches
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at any given point in time. The security team will aim to publish
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fixes for GIT master (which will become the next major release) and
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each currently maintained stable release branch. The distro maintainers
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will be responsible for backporting the officially published fixes to
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other release branches where applicable.
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