Open Source Vulnerability Database: Difference between revisions

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==History==

The project was started in August 2002 at the [[Black Hat Briefings|Blackhat]] and [[DEF CON]] Conferences by several industry notables (including [[H. D. Moore]], rain.forest.puppy, and others). Under mostly-new management, the database officially launched to the public on March 31, 2004.

The [[Open Security Foundation]] (OSF) was created to ensure the project's continuing support. Brian Martin (AKA Jericho) and [[Jake Kouns]] are project leaders for the OSVDB project,<ref>http://opensecurityfoundation.org/</ref> and currently hold leadership roles in the OSF. It is a client/server implementation that consists of a server daemon (mysqld) and many different client programs/libraries. It has a pluggable data store architecture

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Originally, vulnerability reports, advisories and exploits posted in various security lists enter the database as a new entry. The new entry contains only a title and links to entries of the same vulnerability in other security lists. However, at this stage the page for the new entry doesn't contain any detailed description of the vulnerability. After the new entries are thoroughly scrutinized, analyzed and refined, descriptions of the vulnerability, its solutions and test notes are added. Then these details are reviewed by other members of '''OSVDB''', further refined if necessary and then made stable. Once it is stable, the detailed information appears on the page for the entry.

As of January, 2012, vulnerability entry was performed by full -time employees of the OSF. Every new entry included title, description, solution (if known), classification data, references, products, and creditee.

==Contributors==

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== Open Security Foundation ==

The Open Security Foundation is a non-profit 501c3 organization established in early 2005 to function as a support organization for [[open source]] security projects. It was originally conceived and founded as a support for the OSVDB project, but its scope is evolving to provide support for numerous other projects.

The foundation allows organizations and individuals to provide charitable contributions to support open source security projects that provide value to the global community. The foundation also provides guidance, legal, administrative, policy guidelines, and other support to numerous projects.