RFC: Adding a SECURITY.md document to the Binutils

Richard Earnshaw Richard.Earnshaw@foss.arm.com
Fri Apr 14 12:49:25 GMT 2023



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.


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