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[Full-Disclosure] Re: RS-2004-1: SquirrelMail "Content-Type" XSS vulnerability

From: Matt Zimmerman (mdzdebian.org)
Date: Tue Jun 01 2004 - 18:59:42 CDT

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:49:01AM +0200, Roman Medina wrote:

> In other words, many vendors/developers silently fixes bugs and they don't
> necesarily have to know who is packaging their software and inform them.

Such vendors/developers are doing a their users and the community a
disservice. Proper public disclosure of vulnerabilities requires very
little effort on their part; there is no good reason to conceal information
this way. There is no need to contact every downstream vendor directly;
they monitor the usual channels.

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 - mdz

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