Re: What does it mean for a vulnerability to be retired?

[Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt <gl89 () cornell edu>]

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Under the "Discussion" tab for this securityfocus.com BID is the
note:

"NOTE: This BID is being retired because information provided by the
 vendor reveals that the application is not vulnerable to this issue."

Extrapolating from this sampling of one, I'd bet that RETIRED is
fairly rarely used.

   -g

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Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt
Cornell University IT Security Office

On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Terra Frost wrote:

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> <http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26885> is an example of a
> vulnerability whose status has been changed to RETIRED.  My question
> is..  what, exactly, does that mean?
>
> My guess is that it means that the vulnerability is bogus.  But why,
> then, say it's RETIRED and not BOGUS?  It's hard to misinterpret BOGUS,
> but rather easy to misinterpret RETIRED.
>
> Further, if that is indeed what RETIRED means, why would the above
> report, under "Vulnerable", say "WordPress", when, in fact, it isn't?
> Maybe, if anything, it should say WordPress and then have a
> strikethrough through it?
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