Security vulnerability reporting framework upgraded for researchers

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3359074/security-vulnerability-reporting-framework-upgraded-for-researchers/

By John E Dunn
Techworld
21 May 2012

The security industry’s Common Vulnerability Reporting Framework (CVRF) 
framework for reporting and sharing security vulnerabilities in a 
machine-readable format has been given a promised revamp to make it 
easier to use for third-party researchers.

Managed by industry body, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of 
Security on the Internet (ICASI), version 1.1 features a new hierarchy 
for defining products as well as tweaks to ensures that the data entered 
into it in XML format is less vendor-centric.

It also debuts a range of smaller changes that iron out the pitfalls of 
version 1.0, released a year ago to allow vendors and enterprises to 
receive vulnerability data in an automated, standardised way. It 
replaced a multitude of formats used by individual companies.

That work continues with 1.1 being presented as another step to 
vendor-independent standardisation, the lack of which had risked 
shutting out anyone not acquainted with each approach, mostly 
independent researchers.

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