John,
Would that be the unnamed product's "remove obsolete command" fix? :-) If so.... VERY NICE catch!
Tough call on documenting security fixes as such. It can be argued either way. However, general internet users can't just access CA sites to scan fixes (at least we should hope not!).
How about if CA published the fix with the current obfuscation (I love that word), and then following up with an e-mail to registered customers providing more specific security warnings. That provides registered, paying, supported customers with the information they need, and helps "hide" the fix from anyone who might stumble across it.
Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
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I alerted Computer Associates (CA) to a security hole in one of their
VM products that let's any VM userid control a VM system that runs this
product. CA wrote a fix.
If your VM system's running this product without the fix then it has
this security hole active now. The security hole is installed by
default and there's no product installation step or configuration
parameter that closes the hole.
CA and I have agreed to disagree on how well they alert their customers
to the existence of security-related fixes for VM products.
My question to all is would you rather CA labeled VM product fixes as
security-related or not? Is security thru obscurity better?
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