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Vulnerability disclosure policies

Vulnerability disclosure policies

Posted Jul 8, 2010 20:23 UTC (Thu) by jmm (subscriber, #34596)
Parent article: Vulnerability disclosure policies

> While some in our community might be amused that Microsoft (and its users)
> are being treated this way, it may not be so funny if it starts happening
> to Linux or free software projects.

This has actually happened to a free software project already:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3569
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3570
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3571

This information - if it's not a hoax - is still not public.

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