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From: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
To: John R Pierce <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Simon Riggs <[email protected]>
Cc: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Stephen Frost <[email protected]>
Cc: Ferindo Middleton <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] BUG #2052: Federal Agency Tech Hub Refuses to Accept
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 17:57:20 -0500 (EST)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

John R Pierce wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > If someone wants to create a separate web page to track fixes related to
> > CVE number, that is fine.  My guess is that most people reading the
> > release notes don't care about the CVE numbers themselves (just that
> > each release has all known security bugs fixed), and most bugs that are
> > fixed don't have CVE numbers at commit time.
> 
> I think its quite reasonable for the one line description of a postgres 
> bug to reference "CVE-2005-0247 multiple buffer overflows..." or 
> whatever, I guess it kind of depends on which came first...  if the CVE 
> security item came first, and was entered into the PGSQL bug tracker, 
> then this makes a LOT of sense.  if the CVE folks create their entry 
> AFTER the bug has been entered into PGSQL, it makes less sense.

We don't have a bug tracker, see the current FAQ.

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