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Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2019 10:42:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@...ple.dallas.tx.us>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Thousands of vulnerabilities, almost no CVEs:
 OSS-Fuzz

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>
> So what are community thoughts on automatic CVE assignment?
> That would definitely get some attention to these bugs by vendors
> (because that's open CVEs in their products then). And this should be
> implementable because both OSS-Fuzz and syzbot are automated enough
> already. However I afraid that these CVEs may be as automatically
> sorted into a trashcan then :)

An excess of CVEs would cause CVEs to be not very meaningful any more.

Most oss-fuzz issue detections are not CVE worthy.  For example, a 
one-byte read "heap overflow" is not likely to cause any actual harm 
but oss-fuzz would classify it as "heap overflow".

Bob
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