non-responsive maintainer - vda - Denys Vlasenko - dvlasenk at redhat.com

[Denys Vlasenko]

On 12/08/2014 04:45 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> On 12/08/2014 06:20 AM, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On 12/05/2014 05:43 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>>> Starting the non-reponsive maintainter process for  vda - Denys Vlasenko -
>>> dvlasenk at redhat.com  as he appears to have completely abandoned busybox.
>>> Anyone know him or how to contact?
>>
>> Hi. I'm here.
>> How can I help you?
> 
> Are you still interested in maintaining busybox?  There are a number of
> outstanding issues:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&classification=Fedora&component=busybox&list_id=3072742&product=Fedora&query_format=advanced
> 
> including a CVE and new versions being available.

Thank you for reminding me. I'll go through the bugs in the list.

Quick look summary
==================

1024549 Bundled MD5: quite likely WONTFIX. Use of small internal
    implementations of hash function and the like is intended.

346651 Port busybox to use NSS library for cryptography:
    see above

919610 CVE-2013-1813 busybox: insecure directory permissions in /dev [fedora-all]:
    easy backport possible

732185 nfsroot scripts use the wrong mount:
    I don't understand bug description there. reporter did not respond
    to requests for clarification. Likely will be CLOSED/INSUFFICIENT_DATA

731347 CVE-2011-2716 busybox: udhcpc insufficient checking of DHCP options [fedora-all]:
    Easy backport possible

815064 busybox-1.22.1 is available:
    Yes, need to switch to it

802017 busybox not built based on $RPM_OPT_FLAGS, no sources in -debuginfo:
    Not sure we can and want to do that...

1008254 [abrt] busybox-1.19.4-10.fc19: kill_main: Process /usr/sbin/busybox was killed by signal 11 (SIGSEGV):
    Did not look into this yet.