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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:17:03 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a vuln/CVE?
* Kurt Seifried:
> I care a lot less about what is "officially endorsed" or not endorsed
> and a lot more with what is actually going on. If a large percentage
> of people are exposed to a vuln, even if they "shouldn't" be then it
> would still get a CVE. I see a lot of CVEs that should never be
> exploitable, but people do crazy things/configurations.
But the present situation is really not that clear-cut. We have no
indicator of malicious intent from the current domain owner, and users
would still have to disable signature checking *and* they must have
configured the problematic repository. That's a little bit
far-fetched.
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