Why Vulnerability Databases can't do everything
Posted by jericho
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-07/0295.html
From: Steven M. Christey (coley[at]mitre.org) Date: Fri Jul 15 2005 - 13:35:52 CDT
Vulnerability databases and notification services have to pore through approximately 100 new public vulnerability reports a week. Correction: that’s HUNDREDS of reports, from diverse and often unproven sources, for about 100 unique vulnerabilities per week.
A LARGE number of vendors and maintainers either:
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