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Date:      Tue, 30 Aug 2016 12:20:59 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Weldon Godfrey <weldon@excelsusphoto.com>,  freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports EOL vuxml entry
Message-ID:  <8660qitv5g.fsf@desk.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <8a222379-442d-b77d-e96d-27a556f798df@FreeBSD.org> (Kubilay Kocak's message of "Wed, 24 Aug 2016 01:02:42 %2B1000")
References:  <80eda92991512e9c50915536e7793396@excelsusphoto.com> <8a222379-442d-b77d-e96d-27a556f798df@FreeBSD.org>

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Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> This (good) argument sounds primarily about classification and/or the
> ability or lack thereof to distinguish between types-of-things, which
> are not identical:
>
> * Explicit vulnerability ("Active", Official record (CVE, etc), will or
> likely/expected to be fixed)
> * Implicit (probable) vulnerability (by way of EoL, no fixes/support,
> may have CVE (forever), port/pkg deleted, etc)

In theory, these are not identical.  In practice, there is no way to
tell the difference given the sources and resources we have.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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