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Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 14:19:06 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE-2012-2248: isc-dhcp, Debian-specific: build
path included in PATH
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On 10/18/2012 01:35 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>>> It was uploaded to and affected Debian testing and unstable.
>>> Testing has not yet been officially "released", but some people
>>> use testing as if it were an official release. Unstable never
>>> gets released.
>>
>> When I say released I meant in the sense of made available for
>> download, not in the sense of software engineering and doing a
>> proper "release".
>
> So, at the risk of sounding nitpicky, the Debian testing +
> unstable archives are pretty much equivalent to Fedora rawhide.
> Even though Redhat's position is that issues affecting only rawhide
> should not get CVE identifiers, in Debian I think we should try to
> be more honest, so we'll assign identifiers to all "uploaded"
> versions (in Debian, we use the term upload to mean that a package
> is available in an archive vice the term release).
Part of it also depends on usage. Google labels everything as a Beta,
sometimes for years and with millions of users. My experience is a lot
of people use Debian unstable (when I used Debian I did, otherwise
everything was to boring =). What would be interesting is if you could
provide download statistics from the main site. I know for a fact
CVE's have been assigned for publicly released applications that are
probably in use by less than 100 or in extreme cases possibly less
than 10 people globally.
> Best wishes, Mike
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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