Glossary

CVE id

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures id. In order to refer to a vulnerability, an id provided by MITRE is used. This id is unique for each public vulnerability. Website

DLA

A Security Advisory from the Debian Long Term Support team that affects older versions of Debian. Example DLA

DSA

An official Debian Security Advisory is called a DSA for short. Example DSA

DTSA

An official Debian Security Advisory for the testing suite (historic, no longer in use)

MITRE

The MITRE Corporation, a US based not-for-profit company, best known for maintaining the CVE id system. Website

NFU

Not For Us. This designation is placed on a CVE that does not directly affect Debian. More info on NFU

oss-security

Open Source Software Security. Community for open source software security research, best known for its equally named mailing list. Website