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by detaro 1330 days ago
It's not useless, and if it identified the vulnerability it'd massively increase the risk of it being used before patch release.
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Attackers can just go look at the repo's commits. Holding back the information only hurts defenders.
It seems unlikely to me that the maintainers are that careless.
It is the norm for the patch to be committed and the CVE to be acquired as part of that process.
Yep, per this comment my optimism was misplaced.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33384596

Or, it appears I may have been correct the first time.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33382684

That's cool. Some projects do that, some do not.
It's useless because I don't know if I need to care. Vulnerabilities in openssl are nothing new so as far as I know this is just par for the course, and I get nothing out of it as of yet.
... and an announcement like this is a fairly strong message of "assume you need to care"
I'm not going to assume anything in regards to a future release I have no details about.
So what do you propose is the alternative? Not tell you about the vulnerability at all until a patch is released? Publish all the details about the vulnerability before a patch is available?

Seriously, what are you complaining about?

I just want actionable information is all. If I have to wait a couple days, fine. Giving me vague information I can't do anything with is useless.
"be prepared to update affected systems at $point_in_time" seems actionable to me. You for some reason thinking that such a warning doesn't warrant taking the recommended action doesn't mean it isn't actionable, it means you choose to ignore it.
I spent a few minutes checking my cmdb for openssl3, and have allocated 30 minutes on Tuesday to upgrade the few machines that have openssl3.

When corporate infosec starts to panic, probably about Thursday based on the jndi issue, I'll be able to point them to our log which shows how it was handled.

> I just want actionable information

Which is, according to TFA, being released on 1 Nov., and according to my calendar, is in 3 days... Problem solved?

The detail that it patches a critical vulnerability should be enough for you to assume you should care, assuming you care about security.