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Message-ID: <50DFBAC6.3090506@redhat.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:53:42 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: David Holland <dholland-oss-security@...bsd.org>,
        Steven Christey <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Isearch insecure temporary files

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On 12/21/2012 12:50 PM, David Holland wrote:
> Looking at that thread (which I didn't see at the time because I
> no longer have time to follow this list much) I think I'd agree
> that the CVE system itself is the wrong scheme, not only for its
> own reasons but also because it doesn't reach the right targets.

> All of these problems also apply to any new scheme someone sets
> up; what I'm suggesting is that the existing CVE infrastructure is
> not necessarily that much of an advantage.

One random thought, might it be worth adding structured data to CVE
that basically says when the issue was made public/reported to the
upstream and when upstream 1) acknowledged it (if ever) and then they
patched it (if ever) and when they shipped a fixed version (if ever).
Obviously then you could simply parse for the time between date
reported and date acknowledged/patched/fixed and see how
healthy/responsive the upstream is.


- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
PGP: 0x5E267993 A90B F995 7350 148F 66BF 7554 160D 4553 5E26 7993

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