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Re: DSA-1771-1 vs. tracker



On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:36:45 -0400 Michael S. Gilbert wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 22:14:24 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > I think it would be useful to mark the CVE-less vulnerability as fixed,
> > as well, maybe by referring to a TEMP, which will later be converted
> > into a CVE...
> 
> there are some issues with the tracker update scripts where the DSA
> links are being removed from non-numbered CVEs.  this has yet to be
> addressed (i.e. the script needs to be made to be more intelligent about
> this type of case).  i'll see if i can find the time to work on it.

Ah, so this is a limitation of the current tracker infrastructure.
I wasn't aware of this issue: I hope it can be addressed in a
reasonable time frame.
Thank you very much for volunteering to work on it!  :-)

[...]
> > On the other hand, the CVE tracker pages [3][4] also claim
> > that squeeze is fixed, even though it still has version 0.94.dfsg.2-1.
> > Is this good news, or just a mistake on the tracker?
> 
> the data was misentered in the tracker.  fixed.

Thanks indeed, the fixed/vulnerable version information now seems to be
consistent with the DSA!

Bye.


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