full-disclosure - Re: [FD] Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes rogue binary C:\Program.exe

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Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:33:54 -0700
From: coderaptor <coderaptor@...il.com>
To: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com>
Cc: "fulldisclosure@...lists.org" <fulldisclosure@...lists.org>
Subject: Re: [FD] Beginners error: Hewlett-Packards driver software executes
 rogue binary C:\Program.exe

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...xchg8b.com> wrote:
[...]
> This is a very minor bug, should they stop engineers working on high
> severity issues and assign them to this? There's no security impact,
> and an Administrator would have to deliberately break the system. If I
> was in charge, I'd tell them to fix real bugs that paying customers
> are reporting - not contrived issues like this.
[...]

So the priority would have been different had a "paying" customer
reported this as against someone reporting it for free? :-)

We recently had a "paying" customer do a independent security audit,
and reported this issue for our product. Of course, it was scored high
on CVSS, as always is the case. We were able to explain why the
exploit requires speciality conditions, but eventually had to address
it - closing all the reported issues on the report was far more
important for the customer than listening to reason. We did a
class-fix across the entire product line. It did not take a lot of
time, frankly - which is where my argument came from. Where perception
plays an important role, I find it much easy to fix something if it is
trivially fixable, than argue with someone.

-coderaptor

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