Bugtraq: Re: defining 0day

[Chad Perrin <perrin () apotheon com>]

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 05:20:35PM -0700, Marvin Simkin wrote:
> > Unpatched Vulnerability: Working Exploit
> "Working in a white hat's lab" is not as urgent as "being abused right now in the wild".
>
> > . . . or maybe "zero day exploit".
> Proposed:
>
> 1. A 0-day EXPLOIT is an Unpatched Vulnerability that we realize is being or has been abused.
>
> 2. A 0-day VULNERABILITY: no such thing. All vulnerabilities are either Unpatched or Patched. They start out in 
> Unpatched status the moment some programmer creates them. They remain Unpatched until they are Patched.
That was pretty much my point -- so I'm on board.

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