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Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:28:14 -0400
From: "Mike O'Connor" <mjo@...o.mi.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Vendor-sec hosting and future of closed lists
[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.
--
Michael J. O'Connor mjo@...o.mi.org
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