[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 06/24/2006 08:24:40 AM:

> Hi Folks,

>  
> I am wondering if there any common source which defines the severity
> level of any vulnerability stating that its high/medium or
> informational or every vendor who develop VA tools classify the
> severity levels on their own? Thanks in advance


We have found that we can only use other people's severity ratings as a guide.  We have to rank them ourselves based on our applications and architectures. We have a committee that meets weekly to review new *nix vulnerabilities. (Our Microsoft folks meet just after Microsoft's security announcements, usually on Black Tuesday.)  

While nothing is perfect, we tend to use CVE ( cve.mitre.org ) for information on each vulnerability (except for Microsoft and some other vendor-specific vulnerabilities.)

Tom

Toto, I don't think we're in the mainframe world any more.
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