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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 09:05:13 -0700
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@...emonkey.ws>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: membership request to the closed linux-distros
security mailing list
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 08:54:29AM -0700, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Stuart Henderson <stu@...cehopper.org> wrote:
>> > On 2015/03/20 08:16, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I think the alternative is to formalize what already appears to be the
>> >> existing practice: disclose distros@ on the existence of a
>> >> vulnerability but require direct contact for the details of the
>> >> vulnerability if the submitter/upstream thinks the impact is high.
>> >
>> > Are private lists even needed if this policy is taken?
>>
>> I think there's a lot of value in being able to just send a low-medium
>> impact issue to a single list of groups that have gone through some
>> level of vetting without needing to respond directly to individuals
>> and making value judgements.
>>
>> I also think it's helpful to have a single point of contact so that an
>> upstream isn't dealing with 10 different people from a single
>> organization asking for details.
>
> Why not just publishing a low - medium impact vulnerability directly?
Upstreams are already free to do this, no? If an upstream reporter
sends to distros@ or another forum, they have already made that
risk/reward trade-off.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
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