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Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:09:11 +0100
From: Andrea Barisani <lcars@...rt.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Vendor-sec hosting and future of closed lists
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 11:28:14PM -0400, Mike O'Connor wrote:
> [catching up on old email]
>
> :> > As suggested by Josh Bressers oCERT would be favourable to providing a
> :> > system that would accept user submission and allow selection of security
> :> > contacts from our existing member database as well as other verified
> :> > contacts.
>
> ...
>
> :It all depends on how this process is going to be handled. I can see oCERT
> :helping in routing reports to the proper contacts via email to our trusted
> :member contacts as well as external ones that we can seek on a report basis.
>
> What I've observed is that some times, the reporter or coordinator
> doesn't have a good idea of the scope of their issue. To cite some
> real-world examples involving folks who I thought would know better:
>
> 1) no, BSD networking isn't just in Free/Net/OpenBSD
> 2) no, ONC RPC just isn't in Sun products
> 3) no, a RH-specific kernel issue is a general Linux kernel issue
>
> Scoping issues isn't always easy. How do you know whether I backported
> some bleeding-edge fix with broken security implications into one of the
> OSes I care about last week? Sometimes, I'll need specific info just to
> confirm that I don't care about the issue. Scoping is one of the things
> that vendor-sec was occasionally quite helpful with.
>
Putting reports within the proper context and hunting down all occurrences of
affected code in other projects has been one of oCERT goals from the
beginning.
I agree 100% that reporters often do not have this knowledge or do not care
about making the effort in scoping things in depth, that's exactly why oCERT
was created.
> --
> Michael J. O'Connor mjo@...o.mi.org
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