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Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found?

From "Wheeler, David A" <dwheeler@ida.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.security
Subject Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found?
Date 2016-02-12 17:30 +0100
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Should Debian's security team ask for a Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) id when a related CVE is found/reported fixed?

CPEs are used to by some systems to identify software (including, optionally, specific version numbers of software).  Some security scanning automated tools use CPEs for identification.  More info on requesting CPEs here: 
https://nvd.nist.gov/cpe.cfm

I thought I'd raise the idea.  Thanks!

--- David A. Wheeler

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Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? "Wheeler, David A" <dwheeler@ida.org> - 2016-02-12 17:30 +0100
  RE: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? "Booth, Harold" <harold.booth@nist.gov> - 2016-02-12 19:30 +0100
  Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-02-13 22:00 +0100
    Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> - 2016-02-15 10:10 +0100
      Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? Vulchev <v.vulchev@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 10:30 +0100
      Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? Elmar Stellnberger <estellnb@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 10:40 +0100
        Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? "georg@riseup.net" <georg@riseup.net> - 2016-02-15 18:40 +0100
      Re: Should Debian ask for a CPE when a CVE in Debian is found? Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-02-16 00:50 +0100

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