Comment on FFmpeg to Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
Taldan@lemmy.world 1 day agoThe truth can absolutely be a bad thing. If google reports an important vulnerability, then buries it in CVE slop for 90 days, and publicly announces details of the important vulnerability that hasn’t been fixed yet, it would be worse than if they had never reported it
The 90-day publishing window is tough when OSS projects are getting buried in AI slop reports
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
Then Google would have to put out of the fire of that vulnerability in their dependent software.
Not disclosing a vulnerability doesn’t stop attackers from exploiting it. A report simply indicates someone who noticed bothered to report it.
The problem is the vulnerability. False urgency is nothing more: the maintainers don’t need to “meet the window”. Companies will be left with their pants on fire if they don’t act, too: it’s everybody’s problem. Maintainers can just ignore the window to shift the burden back on moneyed interests as I explained before.