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Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2011141426320.48674@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:35:01 +1100 (EST)
From: Dave Horsfall <dave@...sfall.org>
To: OSS Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: Buffer Overflow in raptor widely unfixed in Linux
distros
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Hanno Böck wrote:
[...]
> It may be interesting to discuss how this happened. From my side I feel
> I did what I should do - I reported it to the project and later
> disclosed it publicly on oss-security. Apparently it seems there is no
> reliable process to make sure publicly reported vulns eventually get
> patched in distros if there is no active upstream.
There's always the "Full Disclosure" list (URL forgotten, but
http://lists.grok.org.uk rings a bell).
Their policy is simple: provide ample warning, then disclose the bug; the
problem is that Big Corporations brush off a bug report with "We're
working on it" and actually do nothing, because fixing bugs takes time
and money. Funny how quickly a bug is fixed when it's published...
-- Dave
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