Don't cross-post security advisories to oss-security
authorMatt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
Thu, 23 Mar 2023 13:34:01 +0000 (13:34 +0000)
committerTomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
Thu, 4 May 2023 08:17:18 +0000 (10:17 +0200)
We should send any security advisory to oss-security separately and not
cross-post it with our own lists.

We also change the text to say that security advisories should be sent to
support-announce regardless of whether a premium release has been affected.

Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <pauli@openssl.org>
Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/tools/pull/139)

HOWTO-make-a-release.md

index 139337070e73dae75e8b56ae956741da016dbb87..0b4e523c425c161f798dd16d9d7b075aba88e53d 100644 (file)
@@ -426,15 +426,21 @@ Then copy the result to the temporary directory on dev.openssl.org:
 To finish, log in on dev.openssl.org and send the signed Security
 Advisory by email as the user that signed the advisory.
 
-For all releases, send them to the default set of public mailing lists:
+For all releases, send it to the default set of public mailing lists:
 
     REPLYTO="openssl@openssl.org" mutt -s "OpenSSL Security Advisory" \
             openssl-project openssl-users openssl-announce \
+            </tmp/secadv_FILENAME.txt.asc
+
+We also send it separately to oss-security (to avoid cross-posting with our
+own lists):
+
+    REPLYTO="openssl@openssl.org" mutt -s "OpenSSL Security Advisory" \
             oss-security@lists.openwall.com \
             </tmp/secadv_FILENAME.txt.asc
 
-For premium releases, send them to support-announce as well *and
-separately*:
+Finally we also, send it to support-announce as well *and separately*. We always
+do this, even if a premium release has not been affected:
 
     REPLYTO="openssl@openssl.org" mutt -s "OpenSSL Security Advisory" \
             support-announce </tmp/secadv_FILENAME.txt.asc