[Secure-testing-team] References to Secunia IDs

Raphael Geissert atomo64+debian at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 21:20:54 UTC 2008


Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Raphael Geissert:
> 
>> I believe it is better to have a Secunia ID than no other
>> information to easily identify the issue. Or should I stop asking
>> for that?
> 
> We should really concentrate on CVEs.

I never said we shouldn't.
I just though that having some sort of id when a CVE isn't known/assigned would
be better than none (one could argue that the BTS' bug id is...).

> The United States haven't got a 
> notion of database copyright, so their naming service won't have any
> IPR issues.  In addition, we've got local copies of their database.

Cheers,
-- 
Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer
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