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[morrowc.lists at gmail.com (Christopher Morrow)]

(-direct-ryan)

yikes formatting for this got wonky...

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Ryan Shea via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
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> From: Ryan Shea <ryanshea at google.com>
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> Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 15:53:15 +0000
> Subject: Unified Security Vulnerability Management
>
> Manually setting up and parsing email notifications for security
> vulnerabilities for all vendors is mighty annoying. It looks like the ICASI
> CVRF <http://www.icasi.org/cvrf> Working Group thought the same thing back
> in 2011 when they came up with this handy XML schema. I had not known of
> this until yesterday and noticed that Cisco does a good job
> <http://tools.cisco.com/security/center/cvrfListing.x> posting their
> vulnerabilities in CVRF. Word on the streets is that Juniper
> <https://twitter.com/junipersirt/status/70627418737610752> was at least
> partially involved in CVRF as well. Brocade may have looked into it as well.
>
> This does not seem like a difficult thing for vendors to do, but the
> missing piece may be customer interest. I am hoping to drum up some
> interest here -- maybe a few support requests would entice them to hand
> this off to an intern and we could collectively do better at managing
> vendor notifications. A tool <https://github.com/mschiffm/cvrfparse> to
> parse CVRF is already floating about as well (mschiffm).

I bet if we can get FR/PR numbers for some vendors we might be able to
get a bunch of people to add support through a central set of points
per vendor.

Can we put the PR for juniper here? (and if other folk have a PR/FR
for their pet vendor(s) add those to the list?)