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Message-ID: <20170315185652.hdf2d2eszr5amwvi@perpetual.pseudorandom.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:56:52 +0000
From: Simon McVittie <smcv@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Leo Famulari <leo@...ulari.name>
Subject: Re: Dealing with CVEs that apply to unspecified
package versions
On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 at 18:12:52 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> 1. The software behind the CVE form could force submitters to specify
> version numbers.
That isn't going to work. Not all of the software of interest to major
OS distributions even *has* a version number :-(
(I am not arguing that software *shouldn't* have releases with version
numbers, only that sometimes it *doesn't*; this is a statement about
reality, not about best-practice.)
S
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