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Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe
From: coderaptor <coderaptor () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:33:54 -0700
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tavis Ormandy <taviso () cmpxchg8b com> wrote: [...]
This is a very minor bug, should they stop engineers working on high severity issues and assign them to this? There's no security impact, and an Administrator would have to deliberately break the system. If I was in charge, I'd tell them to fix real bugs that paying customers are reporting - not contrived issues like this.
[...] So the priority would have been different had a "paying" customer reported this as against someone reporting it for free? :-) We recently had a "paying" customer do a independent security audit, and reported this issue for our product. Of course, it was scored high on CVSS, as always is the case. We were able to explain why the exploit requires speciality conditions, but eventually had to address it - closing all the reported issues on the report was far more important for the customer than listening to reason. We did a class-fix across the entire product line. It did not take a lot of time, frankly - which is where my argument came from. Where perception plays an important role, I find it much easy to fix something if it is trivially fixable, than argue with someone. -coderaptor _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Tavis Ormandy (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Project Un1c0rn (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe coderaptor (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Tavis Ormandy (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Reindl Harald (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Michal Zalewski (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Stefan Kanthak (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Reindl Harald (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Michal Zalewski (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe Mario Vilas (May 21)
- Re: Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe coderaptor (May 22)