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Re: goals for hardening Debian: ideas and help wanted



> I suggest it might be better if exploits were each given a quick/approximate
> "ranking" in terms of severity (and if the severity is unknown it could be
> assigned a default median ranking), so that the algorithm you mention wouldn't
> just add number of unplugged exploits, but add them by weight

That is a good idea. The Common Vulnerability Scoring System was invented for this purpose:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSS

Kind regards,

Richard

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