full-disclosure - Re: Netscape Problems.

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From: dave at immunitysec.com (Dave Aitel)
Subject: Re: Netscape Problems.

In case you didn't notice, you're comparing a completely open process
with one that is almost entirely closed. I.E. The total number of remote
roots on Solaris, Windows NT, Irix, and the like is magnitudes higher
than is actually disclosed. Whereas generally on Open Source platforms,
you know and understand everything there is to know about each
vulnerability. This is why on Open Source platforms (or platforms for
which the source code is so readily available as to make it open source
in all but name) people are now hunting down obscure integer overflows,
and on closed source platforms fuzzers are happily picking out stack
overflows in initial handshake messages.

Were you comparing a vendor's internal bug database to various bugzillas
you might have a better case.

Dave Aitel
Immunity, Inc.

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:17:56 +1300 (NZDT)
zen-parse <zen-parse@....net> wrote:

> In case people haven't noticed yet, Open Source is not more secure.