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Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed?
From: Rich Felker <dalias () libc org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:58:43 -0500
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 05:10:05PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
Subject says it all: What do you do if you receive a vulnerability report, and the reporter requests an embargo at some time in the future because that's when their paper/conference presentation/patent submission is scheduled? The obvious approach is to find a prior public report of essentially the same bug and fix that (which will work surprisingly often), but let's assume that this isn't the case.
Assuming there is no good reason for the embargo (like coordination with other affected parties), ignore the embargo, fix the bug, and report the behavior to the conference. Conferences should adopt policies not to host speakers who request that users be left unprotected for any extended period for the sake of their own ego trip. Rich
Current thread:
- How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Florian Weimer (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Kurt Seifried (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Gynvael Coldwind (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Matthias Fetzer (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Yves-Alexis Perez (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Matthias Fetzer (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Ludovic Courtès (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Rich Felker (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Solar Designer (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Luedtke, Nicholas (Cyber Security) (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Solar Designer (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Nicholas Luedtke (Jan 19)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? i (Jan 19)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Greg KH (Jan 19)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Igor Seletskiy (Jan 19)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Tavis Ormandy (Jan 20)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? Luedtke, Nicholas (Cyber Security) (Jan 18)
- Re: How to deal with reporters who don't want their bugs fixed? r . hering (Jan 22)