From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A86F3858D32; Fri, 14 Apr 2023 12:49:27 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org 9A86F3858D32 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=foss.arm.com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=foss.arm.com Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD6622F4; Fri, 14 Apr 2023 05:50:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.2.78.76] (unknown [10.2.78.76]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E07C3F6C4; Fri, 14 Apr 2023 05:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5f5c6b67-ecb3-7bae-8ff3-eca91279605e@foss.arm.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 13:49:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.9.0 Subject: Re: RFC: Adding a SECURITY.md document to the Binutils Content-Language: en-GB To: Siddhesh Poyarekar , Nick Clifton , Binutils Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" References: <1c38b926-e003-0e21-e7f1-3d5dbec2aabf@redhat.com> <5b147005-bd28-4cf9-b9e7-479ef02cb1ad@foss.arm.com> <5d044987-39eb-a060-1b2b-9d07b1515e7d@gotplt.org> <73bc480a-a927-2773-8756-50350f76dfbf@gotplt.org> <4ed86e65-0b7f-11d4-8061-2c5d0b1e147e@foss.arm.com> <7b6b10f8-e480-8efa-fbb8-4fc4bf2cf356@gotplt.org> <0224757b-6b17-f82d-c0bf-c36042489f5e@foss.arm.com> <01e846c0-c6bf-defe-0563-1ed6309b7038@gotplt.org> <2d4c7f13-8a35-3ce5-1f90-ce849a690e66@foss.arm.com> <01b8e177-abfd-549e-768f-1995cab5c81d@gotplt.org> <43912382-2d32-9fff-8dad-5c41491eb804@foss.arm.com> <613a6e55-846c-9f1f-cfd0-046b52487ae3@gotplt.org> From: Richard Earnshaw In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3486.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_DMARC_STATUS,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,KAM_LINKBAIT,MEDICAL_SUBJECT,NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_NONE,TXREP,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: On 14/04/2023 13:43, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > They key is in what a project can feasibly guarantee and IMO the > binutils project is not in a position to guarantee this level of > security.  By putting this into SECURITY.md, we'll be signing ourselves > (and downstream maintainers) up for much more than they can handle. No, that's covered by the warranty: GNU tools come with no warranty ... What it is about is what we would do if such a vulnerability were discovered. R.