Stream: brlcad

Topic: GitHub security alerts


view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:36):

Just FYI, I enabled github security auditing on all repos and it instantly kicked back a couple dozen reports on ogv, benchmark, and other existing repos. In case anyone was wondering why that suddenly happened, that's why.

view this post on Zulip starseeker (Sep 01 2020 at 17:37):

Is that auditing for web security issues? Or is it also doing clang static analyzer style analysis?

view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:37):

Unrelated, but I also enabled a new cronjob on the server that pings the webserver every couple minutes to make sure it's running and responsive (and reset if it's not).

view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:38):

starseeker said:

Is that auditing for web security issues? Or is it also doing clang static analyzer style analysis?

I believe they do a simple BOM analysis.

view this post on Zulip starseeker (Sep 01 2020 at 17:39):

OK, cool. Figured the static analyzer would be too much for them to just turn on.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:39):

web projects nearly all use BOM manifests, so it's primarily going to report on web security issues. in theory, it may support C/C++ reporting if we provide a recognized BOM.

view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:40):

yeah, it's not anything fancy like that. they're looking for files like packages.json, seeing a line like "ajax >= 4.5" and matching it against a vulnerability database (e.g., ajax 4.7 is busted, so recommend upgrading to "ajax >=4.8")

view this post on Zulip Sean (Sep 01 2020 at 17:41):

in theory, we could itemize all external deps and get auto-notified when png, zlib, tcl/tk, etc have an issue

view this post on Zulip Erik (Sep 07 2020 at 12:23):

ships is pretty easy to set up and, has a whole set of handy checks (recommend nope to a second watchdog machine, as well)

view this post on Zulip Erik (Sep 07 2020 at 12:24):

nah, autocorrect, nagios


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