full-disclosure - Re: Clarification on Xitami DoS

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From: guninski at guninski.com (Georgi Guninski)
Subject: Re: Clarification on Xitami DoS

Steven M. Christey wrote:
> Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka <mfrd@...itudex.com> asked:
> 
> This thread is a good demonstration for why vendors need to be
> responsive to incoming vulnerability reports.  Without a response from
> the vendor, we've now got a number of posts in which people have spent
> extra time to (a) try to figure out the underlying cause of the issue,
> (b) try to duplicate the issue, and (c) try to come up with a
> resolution in the absence of vendor guidance and/or a patch.  Vendors
> often know the answers to these questions.
> 
> Greater overall responsiveness by vendors is covered heavily by
> section 3 of the Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Process draft
> [1].  Better responsiveness from vendors (and better coordination
> overall) can reduce much of this guesswork, so that sysadmins and
> security researchers can spend their time on more pressing issues.
> 

In my opinion bundling bad stuff and good stuff in one document does not make 
the whole document good.

When a vendor does not care about security, I simply stop using his product and 
don't expect a rfc to protect me and make the vendor a good guy.

Georgi Guninski