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Open Source Vulnerability Database Goes Live

Posted by michael on from the got-bugs? dept.

Alascom writes "The Open Source Vulnerability Database project has finally gone live. The project aims to provide comprehensive, free and unbiased (no vendor spin) vulnerability information. The database is being incorporated into such fine open source utilities as SNORT and NESSUS."

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  1. They forgot one. . . by UFNinja · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdotting. ;)

  2. Re:Can hear MS from here by boarder8925 · · Score: 3, Funny
    How long will it take till they say that?
    If you're calculating time using Windows, it could be as long as 54,367 minutes.
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    Keep your eyes to the sky.
  3. Oh, yeah, this'll be *real* useful by 0x0d0a · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah, this'll be *real* useful. A database with entries that become obsolete after eight hours. "There's a Linux kernel vulnerability, and it...aw, darn." ;-)

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    May we never see th
    1. Re:Oh, yeah, this'll be *real* useful by rbolkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      "There's a Win 3.11 vulnerability, and ... wow, it's listed as a feature in XP."

  4. Open Source Vulnerability Database Goes Live... by crawdaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Open source vulnerability database goes live...and two days later, it goes dead.

    Slashdot - bringing you customizable DDoS attacks for years to come.

  5. Re:Can hear MS from here by kidgenius · · Score: 4, Funny
    There is one out there.

    It's called the Microsoft Knowledge Base

    Yes, that's a joke

  6. Charts by bigbaloney · · Score: 2, Funny

    I sure hope they will provide nice charts with statistics like which OS is more secure. Or perhaps a toplist with an approximation of how many users are affected. That would be very useful to the (h|cr)acker community. ;-)

  7. Re:Naming is important by harikiri · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well as we've seen, the Firefox/Firebird/whatever-it-is-this-month project has no qualms about regular name changes. These guys should go ahead and change it too! ;)

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    Man watching 6 MSCE's around a sun box, looks alot like the opening scene's of 2001:space odyssey...
  8. Re:Running on PostgreSQL, too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh! Stop Violent Bondage and Domination

  9. Re:Naming is important by MyFourthAccount · · Score: 2, Funny

    I agree, I would have called it the 'Open Sores Database'.