Re: [Full-disclosure] Apache Killer

[Georgi Guninski <guninski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 03:52:00PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:35:04 +0300, Georgi Guninski said:
> > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:45:53AM +0100, Mark J Cox wrote:
> > > Use CVE-2011-3192.
> >
> > why the fuck use this shit?
> 
> So that when two different people issue advisories about it, if they both say
> CVE-2011-3192, we know it's the same issue.  Otherwise if you got some people
> writing about Kingcope's hole with gzip and others writing about Zalewski's
> hole with Range: it's hard to tell if they're really the same issue or not.
> 

ok, there might be some sense in using canonical names,
but why chose possibly the worst service available?

from their front page: "CVE®" - remember, remember what happened with the 
securityfocus/bugtraq exploit DB?

btw, all the shitty id that should be "used" says:

** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or 
individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the 
candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.

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