CVE Announce Special: Format of CVE-IDs Changing on January 1, 2014

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CVE-Announce e-newsletter/November 8, 2013
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:

Format of CVE-IDs Changing on January 1, 2014

The syntax for CVE Identifiers (CVE-IDs) is being changed so that more than 10,000
vulnerabilities can be tracked in a single year. The current syntax only allows up to
9,999 per year.

The change will take effect beginning January 1, 2014.

Software vendors and users should ensure their products and processes can handle the
new ID syntax before then.

LINK:

https://cve.mitre.org/cve/identifiers/syntaxchange.html


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