Jeremiah Mahler

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Survey of Security Advisory Systems

16 Feb 2019

Introduction

Every major Linux distribution tracks security advisories and CVEs [1, 4, 5, 8, 10]. And the systems they use are largely the same. This is a survey of those systems.

Distro Source? Store Server Lang Other
ArchLinux yes [2] db uswgi Python Flask  
AmazonLinux no ??? s3 ???  
Debian yes [9] git ??? ???  
Fedora ??? ??? ??? ???  
Ubuntu yes [6] git 7 ??? ???  

References

[1] https://security.archlinux.org/advisory

[2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Security_Team

[3] https://github.com/archlinux/arch-security-tracker

[4] https://usn.ubuntu.com/

[5] https://www.debian.org/security/2019/

[6] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-cve-tracker

[7] https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cve-tracker/tree/active/CVE-2012-1096

[8] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/

[9] https://salsa.debian.org/security-tracker-team/security-tracker/tree/master/data

[10] https://alas.aws.amazon.com/