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Descriptions missing for some CVEs in RHEL OVAL files

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      I noticed that for the RHEL 7 oval file rhel-7-extras-including-unpatched.oval.xml.bz2 (directory link) there seem to be descriptions missing for 1000+ CVEs even though there is a bit of context on the corresponding RHEL CVE page.

      For example, CVE-2016-2381 has description `<description></description>`, but the Red Hat CVE page has the description:

      ```
      The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

      Perl might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass the taint protection mechanism in a child process via duplicate environment variables in envp.
      ```

      Is it possible to some sort of description like this to the OVAL files so clients have some sort of context for a large amount of CVEs?

            proguski@redhat.com Przemyslaw Roguski
            rhdsmnd Ron Desmond
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