Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 09:50:32 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> To: Xin LI <delphij@frontfree.net> Cc: delphij@freebsd.org Subject: Re: possible wrong date in 4a0b334d-8d8d-11d9-afa0-003048705d5a Message-ID: <20050307155031.GE3503@lum.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <1110209378.669.42.camel@spirit> References: <310205489.09789@bjut.edu.cn> <1110209378.669.42.camel@spirit>
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On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 11:29:38PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > $B:_(B 2005-03-07$B0lE*(B 22:41 +0800$B!$(BKang Liu$B<LF;!'(B > > Hi, > > The discovery date of 4a0b334d-8d8d-11d9-afa0-003048705d5a might be > > wrong. I've told delphij (the submitter of that entry), while he said that > > date came from the original source. But, as we all know, 2005 is not leap > > year, actually there is no Feb 29th 2005...I think it could be better if we > > change it to Feb 28th 2005. > > Thanks for noticing this. I'm aware of the issue, but it is the > official version claims Feb 29th: > > http://216.127.76.78/~neosecur/index.php?pagina=advisories&id=8 > > And my letter has been bounced before I have decided to commit it as-is. > > I'm inclined in keeping it there until some of us can *actually* contact > the author to confirm the discovery date. Replacing an official (while > it appears to be wrong) date with a guessed value (we will never know if > it is or is not wrong, and I personally infer it should be March 1st) is > more or less pointless. No, it must be changed and I have already done so. It is unacceptable to have an invalid date: VuXML applications are encouraged to get mad when encountering such bogus data (^_^). I've changed it to 2005-02-28 in the interim. The date cannot be `official'... it is not a date any more than 2005-99-99 is a date. The "discovery" date is actually the date of first public disclosure, by the way. Thus, it seems that 2005-03-02 is probably most accurate. However, it isn't really important. It is just to give people an idea of how long they may have been exposed. Cheers, -- Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org
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