Re: Re: Xen Security Advisory 82 (CVE-2013-6885) - Guest triggerable AMD CPU erratum may cause host hang

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 12/02/2013 04:35 PM, cve-assign () mitre org wrote:
> > This was sent by MITRE as part of the CVE assignment. It seems
> > likely to us (the Xen Project security team) that the CVE
> > assignment was a consequence of our embargoed predisclosure to
> > xen-security-issues.
>
> MITRE typically does not know about multi-party embargo
> arrangements affecting Linux vendors and various other vendors, and
> did not know about any multi-party embargo arrangement in this
> case. If anyone who is regularly involved in vulnerability
> remediation affecting the open-source community asks MITRE to send
> an announcement of a CVE assignment to oss-security, we send that
> announcement without any investigation of disclosure restrictions.
> Although it is unfortunate if such an announcement had an adverse
> effect on a planned disclosure timeline, we feel that this is an
> isolated case and does not mean that we need to reevaluate our
> approach. Also, once an issue is mentioned on oss-security by
> anyone, we consider the issue fully public and we sometimes proceed
> to publish a CVE immediately.

To be clear I asked Mitre for the CVE for AMD (since it's not open
source software). I didn't think to tell them it was embargoed since
the AMD release notes and so on were public. However in future with
hardware related CVE's I'll make sure to ask Mitre to keep them
private if the software side is still embargoed as appropriate.


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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