[lsb-discuss] Linux security bulletins

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, David Cunningham wrote:

> I realise this may be the wrong list, but perhaps someone can point me in
> the right direction?
>
> We have created a Linux security service which includes monitoring of
> security updates for various distributions (RedHat, Centos, Fedora, Debian,
> Ubuntu) so that we can report for each computer what packages need upgraded.
>
> During this we found there is no standardisation on how distributions report
> these bulletins. I think it would be great if every distribution offered,

you are re-inventing the wheel

a trailhead might be: http://cve.mitre.org/cve/ but there is 
much more of course.  I recall an XML marked later variant, 
but there were some IP ownersip issues as I recollect

-- Russ herrold