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Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:47:45 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Dealing with CVEs that apply to unspecified
 package versions

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Leo Famulari <leo@...ulari.name> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:27:47PM -0700, Seth Arnold wrote:
> > I suspect the solution is for people who rely upon these scanning tools
> to
> > do the leg work themselves on the packages they care about. (i.e., the
> > packages that annoy them the most.)
>
> I think those of us who find these tools useful should work to improve
> the CVE database by adding the "fixed-in-version" information as it
> becomes available.
>

This is a major goal of

1) using the JSON format with richer data [a]
2) allowing other people (e.g. CVE Mentors) to edit the data

[a]
https://github.com/CVEProject/automation-working-group/blob/master/cve_json_schema/DRAFT-JSON-file-format-v4.md



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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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