6.5 Addendum

Note

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Since the vulnerability was fixed and a new version of avast! is now available, I released a detailed security advisory on my website today.[74] The bug was assigned CVE-2008-1625. Figure 6-9 shows the timeline of the vulnerability fix.

Timeline from vendor notification to the release of my security advisory

Figure 6-9. Timeline from vendor notification to the release of my security advisory

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[57] See SANS Top 20 Internet Security Problems, Threats and Risks (2007 Annual Update), http://www.sans.org/top20/2007/.

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