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| ====== Security ====== | ====== Security ====== | ||
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| This covers the OpenWrt distribution with the official package feeds hosted at https:// | This covers the OpenWrt distribution with the official package feeds hosted at https:// | ||
| - | ===== Vulnerability | + | ===== Vulnerability |
| Security bugs should be reported in confidentiality to [[contact@openwrt.org]], | Security bugs should be reported in confidentiality to [[contact@openwrt.org]], | ||
| ===== Security advisories ===== | ===== Security advisories ===== | ||
| - | ==== Security advisories 2020 ==== | + | /** Omit the footer because the edit/create date is inaccurate because the page's contents are autogenerated. */ |
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| - | <nspages advisory -actualtitle -textPages="" | + | This only lists security advisories for components maintained directly by the OpenWrt team. This does not list all fixed security problems in third party components used by OpenWrt which can also affect the security of OpenWrt. We do not list known security problems in the Linux kernel, openssl and other third party components even when they affect use cases relevant for OpenWrt. The OpenWrt team monitors the upstream projects and backports security fixes for components used in the OpenWrt core repository to still supported OpenWrt versions. For example |
| - | ==== Security advisories 2019 ==== | + | |
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| - | <nspages advisory | + | |
| ===== Support status ===== | ===== Support status ===== | ||
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| This lists the currently support or not supported OpenWrt versions. | This lists the currently support or not supported OpenWrt versions. | ||
| - | ^ Version ^ Current status ^ Projected | + | ^ Version ^ Current status ^ Projected |
| - | | 19.07 | Fully supported | Jan 2021 | | + | | 23.05 | Fully supported | - | |
| - | | 18.06 | Security maintenance | November 2020 | | + | | 22.03 | Security maintenance | EoL (April 2024) | |
| - | | 17.01 | End of life | EOL | | + | | 21.02 | End of life | EoL (May 2023) | |
| - | | 15.05 | End of life | EOL | | + | | 19.07 | End of life | EoL (April 2022) | |
| + | | 18.06 | End of life | EoL | | ||
| + | | 17.01 | End of life | EoL | | ||
| + | | 15.05 | End of life | EoL | | ||
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| + | The projected EoL can be extended later, depending on the future situation, like the release date of the next release. | ||
| The Version references the most recent stable version from this release branch. | The Version references the most recent stable version from this release branch. | ||
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| * End of life means that we will *not* provide any updates also for severe security problem. Please update to more recent versions. | * End of life means that we will *not* provide any updates also for severe security problem. Please update to more recent versions. | ||
| - | The Projected EOL can be extended later, depending on the future situation, like the release | + | A OpenWrt major version will get into fully supported status after it was initially released. |
| + | When the next OpenWrt major version is released the old version will move into security maintenance mode. | ||
| + | A OpenWrt major version will move into end of Life 1 year after the initial release or 6 months after the release of the next major versions. The later date will be used. We plan to do a final minor release | ||
| - | This only covers the core OpenWrt packages and not the external package feeds hosted on github. Some feed package maintainer do not take care of all OpenWrt versions where the the core components are still supported. For the best security support we suggest everyone to upgrade to the most recent stable version. | + | This only covers the core OpenWrt packages and not the external package feeds hosted on github. |
| + | Some feed package maintainer do not take care of all OpenWrt versions where the the core components are still supported. | ||
| + | For the best security support we suggest everyone to upgrade to the most recent stable version. | ||
| ===== Identifying problems ===== | ===== Identifying problems ===== | ||
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| The OpenWrt project uses multiple tools to identify potential security problems. | The OpenWrt project uses multiple tools to identify potential security problems. | ||
| The information are normally available for everyone and we appreciate fixes for problems reported by these tools form everyone. | The information are normally available for everyone and we appreciate fixes for problems reported by these tools form everyone. | ||
| ==== uscan ==== | ==== uscan ==== | ||
| - | + | The [[https:// | |
| - | This report shows the version number of all packages from the base and the package repository and compares it against the recent upstream released versions. | + | In addition the tool which generates this page also checks for existing CVEs assigned to the packages based on the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) which is listed in the PKG_CPE_ID variable of many packages. |
| - | In addition the tool which generates this page also checks for existing CVEs assigned to the packages based on the Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) which is listed in the PKG_CPE_ID | + | That page is updated |
| - | This page is weekly | + | |
| - | [[https:// | + | |
| ==== Coverity Scan ==== | ==== Coverity Scan ==== | ||
| + | OpenWrt uses the commercial [[https:// | ||
| + | This scans one OpenWrt build per week and reports the problems found in the components developed in the OpenWrt project like procd and ubus, but not on (patched) third party components. | ||
| - | OpenWrt uses the commercial Coverity Scan tool which is available for free to open source projects to do static code analyses on the OpenWrt components. | + | ===== Reproducible builds ===== |
| - | This scans one OpenWrt build per week and reports the problems found in the components developed in the OpenWrt project | + | The [[https://reproducible.debian.net/openwrt/openwrt.html|reproducible builds project]] checks that OpenWrt |
| - | [[https://scan.coverity.com/projects/openwrt]] | + | This proves |
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| - | ===== Reproducible Builds ===== | + | |
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| - | OpenWrt | + | |
| - | The reproducible builds project checks that OpenWrt master is still reproducible and publishes the results here: | + | |
| - | [[https:// | + | |
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| - | ===== deliver to users ===== | + | |
| - | OpenWrt operates multiple build bot instances which are building snapshots of the master and the supported release branches. See [[: | + | ===== Deliver to users ===== |
| + | OpenWrt operates multiple | ||
| - | When a change to a package is committed to the OpenWrt base repository of package feed the build bots are automatically | + | When a change to a package is committed to the OpenWrt base repository of package feed, the build bots are automatically |
| + | The newly built package can then be installed with opkg or be integrated with the image builder by users of OpenWrt. | ||
| + | This allows us to ship updates in about 2 days to the end users. | ||
| - | The kernel is normally located in its own partition and upgrades are not so easily possible. Therefore this mechanism currently does not work for the kernel itself and kernel modules, there a new minor release is needed to ship fixes to end users. | + | The kernel is normally located in its own partition and upgrades are not so easily possible. |
| + | Therefore this mechanism currently does not work for the kernel itself and kernel modules | ||
| ===== Hardening build options ===== | ===== Hardening build options ===== | ||
| - | OpenWrt activates some build hardening options at compile time for all packages | + | OpenWrt activates some build hardening options |
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