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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:21:51 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a vuln/CVE?
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On 06/19/2013 12:17 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Kurt Seifried:
>
>> I care a lot less about what is "officially endorsed" or not
>> endorsed and a lot more with what is actually going on. If a
>> large percentage of people are exposed to a vuln, even if they
>> "shouldn't" be then it would still get a CVE. I see a lot of CVEs
>> that should never be exploitable, but people do crazy
>> things/configurations.
>
> But the present situation is really not that clear-cut. We have
> no indicator of malicious intent from the current domain owner, and
> users would still have to disable signature checking *and* they
> must have configured the problematic repository. That's a little
> bit far-fetched.
Right. I'm talking about more than just this instance. Wordpress
plugins. rubygems.org. etc. Any ways I've been thinking about it and
will post a longer email later.
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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