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gregkh

Greg K-H

Perl is now a CNA, able to assign their own CVE ids, this is great news!
https://security.metacpan.org/2025/02/25/cpansec-is-cna-for-perl-and-cpan.html

Just in time for my talk about this very topic in a few weeks about how all open source projects should be doing this:
https://lfms25.sched.com/event/1urXE/take-control-over-your-projects-cve-entries-before-someone-else-does-greg-kroah-hartman-linux-foundation
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bagder@mastodon.social

daniel:// stenberg://

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@gregkh I spotted perl has MITRE as root, like most.To me it feels like redhat or something would be a better fit...

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gregkh

Greg K-H

Reply to @bagder@mastodon.social
@bagder As Red Hat just became a root at the same time Perl became a CNA, odds are that wasn't an option yet. But yes, going forward I think having most/many open source groups be under Red Hat is a good option to help reduce the load on MITRE.
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bagder@mastodon.social

daniel:// stenberg://

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@gregkh doh, right!

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codonell@fosstodon.org

Carlos O'Donell

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@gregkh I want to watch this talk and compare notes as glibc is a CNA, but I've got a conflict all day on the 19th. Will this be recorded? I've only ever seen the keynotes recorded.

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codonell@fosstodon.org

Carlos O'Donell

Reply to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder @gregkh Red Hat has been a root since 2022 (https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/blog/2022/09/07/CVE-Program-Expands-Partnership-with) and when we made glibc a CNA we picked Red Hat as our root (https://www.cve.org/PartnerInformation/ListofPartners/partner/glibc)

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timlegge@mas.to

Timothy Legge

Reply to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder @gregkh when we were applying we defaulted to Mitre. We never really looked at the reasons to choose a different root.

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sjn@chaos.social

Salve J. Nilsen

Reply to @gregkh

@gregkh awesome if you want to mention this in your talk!

Just for clarity, though – It's the CPAN Security Group (@cpansec) which is now the CNA on behalf of both CPAN and Perl.

This group is different from the security folks in p5p-porters list, the Perl Steering Council, and the Perl Toolchain Gang // Summit folks – though there's some membership overlap. 😃

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gregkh

Greg K-H

Reply to @sjn@chaos.social
@sjn @cpansec Thanks for the clarification, and yes, I will mention it!
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