Exactly the point of full disclosure. If someone with a serious axe to grind would have stumbled onto the ASN.1 flaw before the Eeye notice, it could have been an ELE* for MS and some major corporations.
Let's see, unpatched ASN.1 + Flash Worm = ? jim burnes security engineer great-west, denver *Extinction Level Event > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:full-disclosure- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward W. Ray > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:40 AM > To: 'Roman Drahtmueller'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 > vulnerabilities, MS04-011 > > I would not mind the bunching, except that many of the vulnerabilities > were > discovered more than 4-6 months ago. The other Oses release patches much > more quickly. What if someone other than Eeye with an axe to grind > discovered these flaws before Microsoft decided to patch them? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roman > Drahtmueller > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 7:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] The new Microsoft math: 1 patch for 14 > vulnerabilities, MS04-011 > > > > > I use Linux, OpenBSD and Windows in my enterprise. Linux and OpenBSD > > use the "1 patch for 1 vulnerability" rule. Seems to me that MS is > > bunching their patches together in order to make it seem on the > > surface that Windows has less patches than other Oses, therefore it is > > more secure. CIOs, take note. > > It happens from time to time (today...) that several bugs get fixed with > one > update package on SUSE Linux (and other Linuxes). But: One update package > fixes one package, whereas one patch can consist of several update > packages > (in our patch management framework). > > After all, it is a matter of transparency if you can manually, > individually > select what update package you want on your system and which not. Probably > even more important: You should also be able to see what _changes_ have > been > applied to every single update package. Otherwise, you just can't know > what > else has been "fixed"... > > Regards, > Roman. > -- > - - > | Roman Drahtm�ller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // "You don't need eyes to see, | > SUSE Linux AG - Security Phone: // you need vision!" > | N�rnberg, Germany +49-911-740530 // Maxi Jazz, Faithless | > - - > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html > > _______________________________________________ > Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. > Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
