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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:26:58 +0100
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>,
Mark Stanislav <mark.stanislav@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Requests
On 03/16/2012 04:41 AM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>
> I need the actual info, please refer to:
>
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/16/2
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/15/9
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/14/6
> http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/12/7
>
Those mails are all exemplary requests for CVE id's, ofcourse, but the
fact that they are all already fixed and released means that 100% of
the work is already done. At that point, assigning a CVE id is mostly
useless and is done as a "just for the record" thing.
The need for unified identifier for a particular issue is greatest
when discussing the problem and its potential solutions; Not how
someone actually solved it after it's already done. If CVE is to become
a thing for changelogs only, all those projects that don't use one
but rely on commit-messages instead won't use CVE id's at all, and the
usefulness of the CVE database dwindles.
--
Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@....se
OP5 AB www.op5.se
Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231
Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and
terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war
on peace.
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