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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:40:37 +0100
From: Thomas Biege <thomas@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: busybox
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Am 05.03.2013 10:27, schrieb Thomas Biege:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> Am 04.03.2013 03:26, schrieb Kurt Seifried:
>> On 03/03/2013 01:06 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Kurt Seifried wrote:
>>>> This actually raises a good point, due to Debian being a
>>>> secondary source in most cases (e.g. upstream has a bug
>>>> report which is then copied into Debian's bug tracker since
>>>> Debian ships it) the dates and sometimes information is
>>>> wrong.
>
>>> Aren't these problems true for any source whether it be
>>> primary, secondary, tertiary, or so on?
>
>> Sorry yeah I should have been more clear. This goes for all the
>> major secondary sources (Debian, SUSE, etc.).
>
> I understand this. You provide a very valuable service for free
> here on the list and we should make as easy as possible for you to
> do your job.
>
>
>>>> I will no longer be issuing CVE's for issues brought up
>>>> through the Debian bugtracker without an original source to
>>>> back it up, otherwise more mistakes will happen which is not
>>>> good.
>
>>> I don't understand the purpose of excluding an entire project's
>>> sources. Should redhat's bugzilla, gentoo, etc. also be
>>> excluded for the same reason? If not, why do they get special
>>> treatment?
>
>> I didn't say I;'m excluding them. I simply will require an
>> original source, in this case the year is probably wrong.
>
>>> Is there really a problem at all? The debian report included
>>> the upstream commit, so you had a link to a primary resource
>>> anyway. So, I think a simple solution to this 'problem' of
>>> secondary sources is follow them to the primary one?
>
>> Yeah, and people can post them to the list. As stated before, I
>> assign a lot of CVEs. One minute extra per CVE is about 20 hours
>> a year. It adds up. So from now on I'll be needing original
>> source confirmation in the emails to oss-sec.
>
> Unfortunately this will neither reduce your work-load nor increase
> the speed. Every CVE request should state exactly the source of the
> issue instead. I believe that the frequent posters on this list
> have no problem doing this.
After reading it again, that is what you already meant.
Thomas
>
> Best, Thomas
>
>
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