Re: tracking security issues without CVEs

From	Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.security
Subject	Re: tracking security issues without CVEs
Date	2016-03-23 20:10 +0100
Message-ID	<rfWkh-7VP-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References	<r9yE2-8rb-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <rbTbj-7BO-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <rcdMK-5Tc-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <rfvtL-5K4-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <rfHlf-5ED-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization	linux.* mail to news gateway

Show all headers | View raw

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:59:34AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>I think Debian needs to go towards the approach of VRDX-SIG and do
>identifier cross-referencing instead of settling on *one* system for
>referring to security vulnerabilities. Internally, we would continue
>to use CVEs and CVE-2016-XXXX for issues without CVEs and then map all
>the external identifiers onto those.

I think debian should pick a common one to use by default, and use a 
different one only if necessary. I think trying to turn into yet another 
clearinghouse of cross-referenced vulnerability IDs is a bottomless pit 
of wasted effort. 

Mike Stone

Thread

tracking security issues without CVEs Brian May <brian@linuxpenguins.xyz> - 2016-03-06 05:40 +0100
  Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-03-06 16:10 +0100
  Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2016-03-06 17:10 +0100
    Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org> - 2016-03-06 19:00 +0100
      Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-03-06 23:40 +0100
      Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2016-03-10 21:00 +0100
        Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-03-11 01:30 +0100
    Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2016-03-06 23:40 +0100
  Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2016-03-12 16:00 +0100
    Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-03-13 14:00 +0100
      Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Antoine Beaupré <anarcat@orangeseeds.org> - 2016-03-22 15:30 +0100
        Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-03-23 04:10 +0100
          Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2016-03-23 20:10 +0100
            Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Andrew Deck <andrew.hastings.deck@gmail.com> - 2016-03-28 16:40 +0200
              Re: tracking security issues without CVEs Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> - 2016-04-28 08:30 +0200

csiph-web