Re: [HACKERS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Ferindo Middleton <fmiddleton(at)verizon(dot)net>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept
Date: 2005-11-25 20:18:01
Message-ID: 200511252018.jAPKI1I28934@candle.pha.pa.us
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If someone wants to create a separate web page to track fixes related to
CVE number, that is fine. My guess is that most people reading the
release notes don't care about the CVE numbers themselves (just that
each release has all known security bugs fixed), and most bugs that are
fixed don't have CVE numbers at commit time.

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Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I am not excited about referencing error numbers from someone else.
> > We know our errors better than anyone else, so I don't see the point.
>
> The point is, *we* might know our error numbers, but the rest of the
> world doesn't.
>
> And CVE isn't just "someone". A large number of security groups,
> government agencies, and OS distributors are involved there. Using CVE
> numbers, the public can, say, correlate bugtraq or CERT announcements
> or Red Hat or Debian bugs to PostgreSQL patches and releases.
> Copy-and-pasting the CVE number into the patch message or release note
> entry really isn't that much to ask for that service.
>
> --
> Peter Eisentraut
> http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/
>

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