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Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser
From: Jamie Strandboge <jamie () canonical com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 19:26:12 -0500
On 07/23/2015 06:50 PM, Philip Pettersson wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Leif Nixon <nixon () lysator liu se> wrote:Qualys Security Advisory <qsa () qualys com> writes:Hello, it is July 23, 2015, 17:00 UTC, the Coordinated Release Date for CVE-2015-3245 and CVE-2015-3246. Please find our advisory below, and our exploit attached.*Why* are you releasing a full exploit just minutes after the patch is released? (Disclosure: I am employed by Red Hat, but this is my purely personal question.)That's how coordinated release dates work. Instead of trying to shame Qualys for not following your arbitrary views on what is and isn't "Responsible Disclosure", perhaps you should make sure Red Hat releases patches hours before the CRD, like Ubuntu does?
Ubuntu is actually very careful to not release anything ahead of CRD unless the CRD is broken elsewhere. Not saying we've never made a mistake, but as you can imagine it is quite annoying when a CRD is broken-- we certainly don't want to be the cause of that annoyance for others. :) (Disclosure: I am employed by Canonical) -- Jamie Strandboge http://www.ubuntu.com/
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- Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Qualys Security Advisory (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Leif Nixon (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Philip Pettersson (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Jamie Strandboge (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Kurt Seifried (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Leif Nixon (Jul 24)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Martino Dell'Ambrogio (Jul 24)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Joshua Rogers (Jul 24)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Leif Nixon (Jul 24)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Brad Knowles (Jul 24)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Leif Nixon (Jul 25)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Michal Zalewski (Jul 25)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Dave Horsfall (Jul 25)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Brad Knowles (Jul 25)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Philip Pettersson (Jul 23)
- Re: Qualys Security Advisory - CVE-2015-3245 userhelper - CVE-2015-3246 libuser Leif Nixon (Jul 23)