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Libvirt provides a portable, long term stable C API for managing the
virtualization technologies provided by many operating systems. It
includes support for QEMU, KVM, Xen, LXC, bhyve, Virtuozzo, VMware
vCenter and ESX, VMware Desktop, Hyper-V, VirtualBox and the POWER
Hypervisor.
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Historically security issues in libvirt have been primarily triaged & fixed by the Red Hat libvirt members & Red Hat security team, who then usually notify other vendors via appropriate channels. There have been a number of times when vendors have not been properly notified ahead of announcement. It has also disadvantaged community members who have to backport fixes to releases for which there are no current libvirt stable branches. To address this, we want to make the libvirt security process entirely community focused / driven. To this end I have setup a new email address "libvirt-security@redhat.com" for end users to report bugs which have (possible) security implications. This email addr is backed by an invitation only, private archive, mailing list. The intent is for the list membership to comprise a subset of the libvirt core team, along with any vendor security team engineers who wish to participate in a responsible disclosure process for libvirt. Members of the list will be responsible for analysing the problem to determine if a security issue exists and then issue fixes for all current official stable branches & git master. I am proposing the following libvirt core team people as members of the security team / list (all cc'd): Daniel Berrange (Red Hat) Eric Blake (Red Hat) Jiri Denemar (Red Hat) Daniel Veillard (Red Hat) Jim Fehlig (SUSE) Doug Goldstein (Gentoo) Guido Günther (Debian) We don't have anyone from Ubuntu on the libvirt core team. Serge Hallyn is the most frequent submitter of patches from Ubuntu in recent history, so I'd like to invite him to join. Alternatively, Serge, feel free to suggest someone else to represent Ubuntu's interests. If any other vendors/distros have security people who are responsible for dealing with libvirt security issues, and want to join to get early disclosure of issues, they can suggest people. Existing security team members will vet / approve such requests to ensure they are genuine. Anyone on the team / list will be **required** to honour any embargo period agreed between members for non-public issues that are reported. The aim will be to have a maximum 2 week embargo period in the common case, extendable to 1 month if there is sufficient justification made. If anyone feels they are unable to follow such an embargo process for whatever reason, please decline membership of the security list/team. The patch which follows puts up some docs on the website about all of this.... Document how to report security bugs and the process that will be used for addressing them. Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com> |
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LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>