full-disclosure - WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

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Date: Tue Jan  3 11:37:21 2006
From: infosecbofh at gmail.com (InfoSecBOFH)
Subject: WMF round-up, updates and de-mystification

On 1/3/06, Gadi Evron <ge@...uxbox.org> wrote:

> A small BUT IMPORTANT correction for future generations:
> The 0day was originally found and reported by Hubbard Dan from Websense
> on a closed vetted security mailing list, and later on at the Websense
> public page. All those who took credit for it took it wrongly.

Yes, important if you are a marketing guy or if your mouth is planted
firmly on the websense dick.

I am sure most of us are part of other and even private mailing lists.
 So the credit for discovery should go to whomever first PULICALLY
disclosed the vuln.  I have no idea who that was but thanks to a
certain few I saw this vuln in early December.