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cbarnes99today at 12:07 AM4 repliesview on HN

It really pisses me off that responsible disclosure timelines are being ignored.


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creatoneztoday at 1:55 AM

In this case, no insiders broke the embargo. It was reverse engineered from the patch by an unrelated third party and a proof of concept immediately came out of it. At that point, it's kinda fair game.

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bellowsgulchtoday at 12:16 AM

if you don't already consider responsible disclosure a quaint idea, you may want to grow warm on it

the idea that it exists at all is more or less a gentleman's agreement in the engineering world anyway

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roxolotltoday at 12:10 AM

The dirty frag repo says:

> Because the responsible disclosure schedule and the embargo have been broken, no patch exists for any distribution.

I had to do a double take reading that. It’s written something happened and prevented them from following a schedule but seemingly they chose to release the information. I hope I’m missing something where it was forcibly disclosed elsewhere.

Edit: Moments later I refreshed the homepage and saw the announcement. They do claim to have consulted with maintainers

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zmjtoday at 3:54 AM

If the fix commit is public, so is the issue being fixed.

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