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


  • From: "Magnus Hagander" <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
  • To: "Martijn van Oosterhout" <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
  • Cc: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: [BUGS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept
  • Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 22:10:22 +0100
  • Message-id: <6BCB9D8A16AC4241919521715F4D8BCE92E8A0(at)algol(dot)sollentuna(dot)se>

> > > > We really should write the CVE numbers into the commit messages 
> > > > and the release notes.
> > > 
> > > I think that would be good.
> > 
> > That requires the CVE number to be available at the time of commit. 
> > Not sure if it'll always be. But if it is, it's certainly a 
> good idea 
> > to put it in.
> 
> I think that depends on who discovers it. CVEs are assigned 
> even if it's not clear that the vulnerability is exploitable. 
> In anycase, some distributors (like Debian) already track 
> CVEs on your behalf. In general they refer to the CVE when 
> releasing fixes.

Right. This is exactly why it's good to have a list of our own, so ppl
can cross reference.


> In any case, PostgreSQL already seems to have had 29 CVEs logged:
> 
> http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=postgresql

Not quite that many. Several of those are not for postgresql at all, but
for third party products *using* postgresql.

//Magnus



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