[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-05 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
I'm willing to hold off on releasing our own security alert, and even perhaps waiting until 0 Day to release an updated version of the software. What I'm *not* willing to do, is to stop using our source code repository the way it was intended because some tinfoil-hat thinks that someone's going

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-05 Thread samjam
On 05/05/11 12:46, IGnatius T Foobar wrote: I'm willing to hold off on releasing our own security alert, and even perhaps waiting until 0 Day to release an updated version of the software. What I'm *not* willing to do, is to stop using our source code repository the way it was intended because

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-05 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
You know what, I am not really interested in working with people who feel the need to tell me exactly what they want me to do, so it's ok. I would much rather accept security alerts from people who do it the normal way.

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-04 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
oops. gotta fix that. We're going to hold off on any releases for now, though. The guy chose some weird non-standard disclosure method and then got his panties in a bunch when I misunderstood it. Normally a coordinated disclosure means that everyone's got a patched version available for

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-04 Thread dothebart
well, you can commit, you just mustn't push until the disclosure date.  

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-04 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
I think that method is stupid and I'm not going to follow it. In the real world, coordinated public disclosures include an advisory that says upgrade to version x.yy in order to protect your server against this vulnerability.

[Citadel Development] Re: Embargoed: multiple jabber servers vulnerable to denial of service

2011-05-03 Thread IGnatius T Foobar
Thanks for ignoring what it means to do a coordinated release between different products and vendors... I guess that was the first and last advanced notice for citadel, at least from my side. You were expecting something different? 100% of the security advisories to which we have