responsible disclosure debate renews;

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January 12, The Register - (International) Frustrated bug hunters to 
expose a flaw a day for a month. A Russian security firm has pledged to 
release details of previously undisclosed flaws in enterprise 
applications it has discovered every day for the remainder of January. 
Intevydis intends to publish advisories on zero-day vulnerabilities in 
products such as Zeus Web Server, MySQL, Lotus Domino and Informix and 
Novell eDirectory between January 11 and February 1, a security blogger 
reports. As an opener, Intevydis published a crash bug in
Sun Directory Server 7.0, along with exploit code. The final line-up of 
zero-days is still being finalised, but the MySQL buffer overflows and IBM 
DB2 root vulnerability flaws on the provisional menu sound much tastier than
Intevydis's somewhat bland opener. Advisories are due to be published on 
the Intevydis blog here. Intevydis said it launched its campaign after 
becoming more and more disillusioned with foot-dragging by vendors when
confronted by security flaws in their products. Only one software vendor, 
Zeus, reportedly worked with Intevydis in developing a patch to be 
released at the same time as an upcoming advisory from the Russian
security firm. Intevydis's stance is likely to reboot the long running 
debate about the responsible disclosure of security vulnerabilities. An 
entry on the Intevydis blog accuses software vendors of exploiting researchers
as unpaid lackeys. Source: 
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/12/enterprise_sec_disclosure_campaign/



Thanks,



Ron DuFresne
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