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SECURITY.md

Security Policy

Reporting a vulnerability

Report privately through GitHub Security Advisories: https://github.com/inilvinilra/NullLinux/security/advisories/new

Please do not open a public issue for a vulnerability first.

Include what you did, what happened, what you expected, the ISO build id from /etc/os-release, and whether the issue affects the live image, the installer, or an installed system.

This is a small project with no paid staff and no service-level commitment. You will get an acknowledgement and an honest answer about whether and when it can be fixed.

What is in scope

  • The installer (null-install), especially anything that destroys data, bypasses validation, or installs a system that differs from what was verified.
  • The package engine and role manager: false success, unverified installs, removing packages another role owns.
  • Repository trust: anything that would accept an unverified key or repository.
  • Defaults that expose the machine: a listening service, a weakened firewall, a credential written somewhere readable.
  • Anything in the live image that leaks into an installed system, such as passwordless sudo or autologin.

What is not a vulnerability

  • Security tools in the role catalog behaving as designed. They are offensive tools; that they scan, capture or crack is their purpose.
  • Packages from third-party repositories or the AUR. Those are other projects' supply chains; report to them.
  • The absence of a feature that is documented as not implemented, such as disk encryption or Secure Boot. See docs/audit-baseline.md.

Current security status

Null Linux is alpha. The ISO is unsigned, there is no signed package repository, and disk encryption, Unified Kernel Images and Secure Boot are not implemented. Do not use it where those matter. docs/audit-baseline.md lists what has been verified by execution and what has not.

Supported versions

Only the latest commit on main. There is no backport branch.

There aren't any published security advisories