On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Brian May wrote:

> Just wondering if there is some other way we can track security issues
> for when CVEs are not available.
...
> For example, if there are no CVEs are we able to use OVEs instead?
>
> http://www.openwall.com/ove

This sounds like a good idea to me.

Do you know of any issues where OVEs were used?

Is there any project who uses them regularly?

I wonder if we should be discussing this more widely, for example on oss-sec?

> Thinking of imagemagick here, it has a lot of security issues, and
> requests for CVEs are not getting any responses.

It sounds like Mitre has quite a backlog:

https://marc.info/?i=1456968329.26654.16.ca...@bonedaddy.net
https://marc.info/?i=CANO=ty1yvjf505lzrj7utg5ypbys1gabo4bd0e5h95pup62...@mail.gmail.com
https://cve.mitre.org/data/board/archives/2015-11/msg00018.html

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