Re: [fuzzing] NOT a 0day! Re: OWASP Fuzzing page

[Jerome Athias <jerome.athias () free fr>]

Gadi Evron a écrit :
> On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Joxean Koret wrote:
>   
> > Wow! That's fun! The so called "Word 0 day" flaw also affects
> > OpenOffice.org! At least, 1.1.3. And, oh! Abiword does something cool
> > with the file:
> >     
>
> This is NOT a 0day. It is a disclosed vulnerability in full-disclosure
> mode, on a mailing list (fuzzing mailing list).
>
> I am not sure why I got this 10 times now, I thought the days of these
> bounces were over. But I am tired of seeing every full-disclosure
> vulnerability called a 0day anymore.
>
> A 0day, whatever definition you use, is used in the wild before people are
> aware of it.
It makes sense and I totally agree with you.
But the fact is that the things change (and not allways in the right 
direction :-()... due to the society, money, research of popularity...
Please remember us also the sense of the word "hacker" for instance, 
since nowadays it's often use to speak about "bad guy/blackhat/pirate" - 
i hope you'll agree that it's not the (our) sense

/JA

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