Minutes 2024-04-10

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Meeting details

Time: on Apr 10th, 2024, at 17:00 UTC. (Other timezones; iCal download)
Duration: 1 hour, timeboxed. We start 30min earlier for introductions/socializing.
Location: On TPRF’s Slack server, in #cpan-security, w/video.

Previous meeting minutes were approved in PR#56 by @ingydotnet, @oalders and @timlegge

CPAN Metadata & Software Bills of Materials
- @sjn – Had a chat with S. Springett about supplychain-sbom.md, glossary and reading list. Got a little feedback, and aim to continue the conversation after CDX 1.6 is out.
- @sjn – Attended two OpenSSF meetings to see what they work on.
CPAN Privacy and Compliance
CPAN Provenance & Supply Chain Security
CPAN Security Outreach & Information
CPAN Security Patch Tooling
CPAN Software Composition Analysis
CPAN Transparency Logs
CPAN Vulnerability Index
CPANSec Governance, Policy & Funding
- @sjn – Budget draft at https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/#/2/sheet/edit/mEL6BAfL7I7ptOzMlx6q4NiI/
- @sjn – Clarity around tasks and mandate. @sjn proposes a discussion on this at PTS

CVE-2013-4407 - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4407
- HTTP::Body::Multipart in the HTTP-Body 1.08, 1.17, and earlier module for Perl uses the part of the uploaded file’s name after the first “.” character as the suffix of a temporary file, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct attacks by leveraging subsequent behavior that may assume the suffix is well-formed.
- @stigtsp – This fix was thought to be real, but it wasn’t. Some Linux distros (Debian, Gentoo) patched independently anyway, but many didn’t. Version 1.23 has been fixed. Work ongoing for fixing confusion and communication breakdowns.
@timlegge working on blog post laying out this work and why we’re doing it.
@stigtsp – Shared that he is looking into ongoing PAUSE issues, @andk intends to share info eventually.

@sjn – Proposal: New project for ongoing CVE visibility work
- @timlegge - no problems with this
- @sjn - useful for visibility and budgeting and fund-raising
- Vote: Unanimously in favor.
@sjn – Proposal: New project for getting upstream to discover and accept security patches that already are being applied downstream.
- @stigtsp - This should include efforts on _finding_ patches downstream.
- @stigtsp - This project requires separate efforts on reporting/outreach and finding patches.
- @timlegge - Given we’re all volunteers, this may be quite a bit of work.
- @sjn - this may be good for helping in recruitment too.
- Vote: Unanimously in favor.
@sjn – Proposal: Decide on Code of Conduct. Let’s use the same as TPRF
- Vote: Unanimously in favor.
@stigtsp – Re-evaluating if CPANSec should be a CNA
- @timlegge - to find out what’s involved