full-disclosure - Re: Apache Killer

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Message-ID: <20110826131930.GA2070@sivokote.iziade.m$>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:19:31 +0300
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski@...inski.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk, Mark J Cox <mjc@...che.org>
Subject: Re: Apache Killer

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:35:04 +0300, Georgi Guninski said:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45:53AM +0100, Mark J Cox wrote:
> > > Use CVE-2011-3192.
> >
> > why the fuck use this shit?
> 
> So that when two different people issue advisories about it, if they both say
> CVE-2011-3192, we know it's the same issue.  Otherwise if you got some people
> writing about Kingcope's hole with gzip and others writing about Zalewski's
> hole with Range: it's hard to tell if they're really the same issue or not.
> 

ok, there might be some sense in using canonical names,
but why chose possibly the worst service available?

from their front page: "CVE®" - remember, remember what happened with the securityfocus/bugtraq exploit DB?

btw, all the shitty id that should be "used" says:

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

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