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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 23:20:04 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: USBCreator D-Bus service
On 04/22/2015 07:34 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On 2015-04-22 08:50 PM, Tavis Ormandy wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@...onical.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 03:04:23AM +0300, Solar Designer wrote:
>>>> Either way, it sounds weird to keep a low severity issue private. Low
>>>> severity usually means not needing an embargo in the first place. But I
>>>> guess it was the vendor's preference?
>>>
>>> In this case, no, Ubuntu would have preferred several days embargo for
>>> this issue. Hypothetically speaking, Monday would have been ideal, as
>>> we prefer to not release updates on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday.
>>>
>>> We treat local root escalation vulnerabilities with a high priority[1].
>>
>> I wish you had spoken up during the previous discussion. It was my
>> impression that embargoes for local privilege escalations were universally
>> considered deprecated.
>
> Nonsense, embargoes for local or remote privilege escalations are still
> considered to be high priority and should be handled with an embargo.
Please note that this is Ubuntu/Canonical speaking for themselves and
not on behalf of the entire distros list.
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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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