Re: 0day Vulnerability in VLC (this is my first release of the vuln anywhere)

[Tavis Ormandy <taviso () cmpxchg8b com>]

Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:51:55 +0300, Georgi Guninski said:
> > Completely disagree.
> >
> > IMHO nobody should bother negotiating with terrorist vendors.
> >
> > Q: What responsibility vendors have? A: Zero. Check their disclaimers.
>
> And disclaimer or no disclaimer, there's a lot of vendors who want to Do
> The Right Thing and fix their stuff to protect their users (if for no
> other reason than the possibility of lost customers if they ignore
> security issues too often).
>
> If you're a black hat, do whatever the heck you want.
>
> If you're a white hat, be responsible and at least try to engage the
> vendor.  If you're worried about being stiffed for the credit for the
> find, write the advisory and post the MD5 hash somewhere before contacting
> the vendor.  If they respond and work on the problem, the process works.
> If they blow you off, go blackhat and do whatever the heck you want. :)
>
> Now wasn't that easy? :)

Easy and nonsense, I really hope you don't think this is about credit.

Tavis.


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