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Re: Vendor-sec hosting and future of closed lists

From:  Mark J Cox <mjc-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA-AT-public.gmane.org>
To:  oss-security-ZwoEplunGu1jrUoiu81ncdBPR1lH4CV8-AT-public.gmane.org
Subject:  Re: Vendor-sec hosting and future of closed lists
Date:  Fri, 4 Mar 2011 08:08:03 +0000 (GMT)
Message-ID:  <1103040800390.25284@mjc.redhat.com>
Archive-link:  Article, Thread

> This certainly underscores that very few flaws need vendor-sec
> coordination, but I would suspect that out of those roughly 725 flaws,
> many of the really critical ones came through vendor-sec.

Actually, not so much.  Of the flaws we rated impact critical or with a 
CVSS of 'high', only 4 were from that 29 from vendor-sec.

> I'm also curious what "issues already public but found out about it on
> vendor-sec" means?

It's where the date the issue was public is the same date it was reported 
to vendor-sec.  This can be because it was brought to the wrong list, the 
embargo was a day or less, or less often vendors wanted to discuss 
something about it confidentially (a way to exploit it, etc)

Mark



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