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Re: Linking security tracker with exploit-db ?



On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:38:47PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> (I'm not subscribed to debian-security-tracker@lists.debian.org, please
> keep me in CC)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> while discussing with someone at Offensive Security, I learned that
> there's a mapping between CVE numbers and exploits registered in
> http://www.exploit-db.com/.
> 
> I was thinking that it could be interesting to know whether exploits
> are available and as such that it could be interesting to link CVE to the
> corresponding exploits within the Debian security-tracker.
> 
> I believe that everything required is already available online, 
> albeit only on webpages and would thus require some heavy web
> scraping.
> 
> Thus if you want to pursue this idea, I can put you in contact with the
> relevant person at Offensive Security. They might be willing to publish
> this mapping in a more convenient way (possibly as part of the CSV file
> in http://www.exploit-db.com/archive.tar.bz2 or something similar).
> 
> I though that I would throw this idea away because I find it interesting
> but I just don't have the time and the desire to implement it.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer
> 
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Good idea. I have been thinking same about OSVDB. If security team member
approves I could try to implement this. OSVDB links also to exploit-db.com in
some items.

--
Henri Salo

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