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Re: Security web page

On Sat, 4 Oct 1997, Sue Campbell wrote:

> My personal feeling is that enough information to understand the bug be provided
> so one knows whether it affects them. On the other hand that is often enough to
> exploit the bug and our pages are rather high profile to be listing our own
> weaknesses.

I pretty much agree with what's been said by others... As long as we're
providing full source, there's no point in being too secretive about
security weaknesses. This doesn't mean that we should provide a link to a
ready-made exploit for each and every weakness (I wouldn't want to make
the job of dumb crackers too easy (you know... the kind that just compiles
and uses other people's exploits and who wouldn't know what a stack was if
it bit him on the head)), but we definitely should be more verbose than "A
security problem has been found with program X.  Please upgrade to version
3.14.15 or remove the program to fix the problem" (Which is sometimes how
some security alerts read). People with a clue should have enough
information to understand what the problem is.

  Christian



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