[VIM] recent ZDI advisories and "coordinated"

security curmudgeon jericho at attrition.org
Sat Apr 16 02:34:49 CDT 2011


Hi ZDI,

Your recent change in disclosure policy has you releasing advisories after 
a set amount of time, even if a vendor has not provided a patch. 

However, it seems that you are still using your advisory templates without 
updating them. Specifically, you are still calling these "coordinated 
disclosures" when they don't seem to be.

As an example:

http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-044/

2011-02-07 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Patched April 12, 2011
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS11-022.mspx

That is a two month window when there was no vendor patch available. This 
is not the generally accepted definition of "coordinated". Could you 
please clarify?

Brian
OSVDB.org



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