Re: Announcement: New Security Vulnerability List

[security snot <booger () unixclan net>]

Ron,

I fully understand that you're no longer a scriptkiddie defacing with
gForce Pakistan, since you now operate your own security company; thus I
will treat you with the respect that you deserve and will attemt to engage
you in dialogue that is not condescending in nature.

While a particular vulnerability may allow "remote access exploitation",
as you say, the actual severity of the problem is normally determined by
the conditions required for "remote access exploitation" of the problem,
and how widespread it is.  Like many of your contributions to computer
security, including XSS, SQL injection, and various php-related problems
in scripts no one uses, I fully agree that these should be ranked as
"desparate" and not "medium" in severity.

Thank you for your time, and keep in mind that I would gladly meet with
you for coffee and chocolates at any time, to discuss our professional
differences.

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Ron DuFresne wrote:

> They tend to lowball some of the severity of the issues they post though.
> Remote access exploitation should perhaps get more then moderate rating in
> the criticallity of an issue.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron DuFresne
>
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