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Interesting study. I like the premise of it. However, I'm not sure I |
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agree with their method. From the article: |
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"For instance, if a distribution fixed an issue on the earliest date, it |
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would receive a score of 100 for that issue; if it was the last vendor to |
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fix the issue, it would get a score of 0. One can then average the scores |
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after evaluating the 30 issues." |
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So this is just a ranking, with no quantitative results. What I'd really |
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like to know are the distributions' average response times for the High |
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and Moderate vulnerabilities. |
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While Gentoo might be 6th, I'd like to know how much slower Gentoo gets |
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out patches than Ubuntu, Fedora, and/or RHEL. |
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- -Vince |
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Vincent Rivellino |
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GPG Key ID: 62BFEBE4 |
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https://cuz.cx/gpg |
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On Mon, August 7, 2006 07:42, Wolfram Schlich wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I just stumbled over an article from SearchSecurity.com which was linked |
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> to in a heise newsticker posting that tries to analyze how fast |
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> distributions react to security vulnerabilities: |
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> http://tinyurl.com/lplfb |
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> Quick chart: |
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> Rank Distro Points/100 |
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> 1. Ubuntu 76 |
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> 2. Fedora Core 70 |
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> 3. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 63 |
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> 4. Debian GNU/Linux 61 |
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> 5. Mandriva Linux 54 |
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> 6. Gentoo Linux 39 |
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> 7. Trustix Secure Linux 32 |
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> 8. SUSE Linux Enterprise 32 |
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> 9. Slackware Linux 30 |
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> Rank 6 out of 10 is not a great result -- at least we beat SUSE ;) |
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> Any comments or thoughts about this? |
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> Can we become better? |
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> Are we maybe better than the author pretends? |
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> Does the security team currently face serious problems that need to be |
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> solved, be it inside or outside the security team? |
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> I am just curious and would be glad to get some feedback :) |
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> Regards, |
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> Wolfram Schlich <wschlich@g.o> |
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> Gentoo Linux * http://dev.gentoo.org/~wschlich/ |
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