Description of problem: Full disclosure of Fedora/Redhat Enterprise compromise is not available. https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2008-August/msg00012.html Is 6 months of silence enough to endure? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Not disclosed. How reproducible: Read the WWW. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Not disclosed. 2. 3. Actual results: Red Hat remains silent. Expected results: Red Hat discloses the nature of the Breach and steps to prevent same in the future. Additional info:
Things we know as it pertains to RHEL.... 1) No source code under RH control was changed (per various announcements) 2) Some one was able to get a trojaned ssh package signed (per recent Red Hat mag article) 3) The package did not get distributed via RHN (per various announcements) I assume whoever was smart enough to get the package in, got it out, ergo there is a correctly signed, trojaned ssh package in the wild somewhere. I question whether Red Hat has a copy of the trojaned, signed package since their suggestions for detecting it are superficial. I initially hoped that Red Hat would at least be able to produce network traces and logs such as generated by the Gentoo project several years ago. Or that they could release an outside audit/review of their procedures with a high level remediation plan, etc. I have concluded they are not capable of that level of analysis or openness.
link is Item 5 'post mortem' at http://www.owlriver.com/projects/packaging/#trust as to that Gentoo response
This isn't a kernel bug. Nor is the package bugzilla a way to report issues with this.