oss-security - Re: asterisk dupe?

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Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 12:51:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: asterisk dupe?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:

> I think there's been a dupe in a recent CVE assignment for
> asterisk. CVE-2008-1923 appears to be a duplicate of
> CVE-2007-4103.

These are most likely different based on different advisories from
Asterisk, as well as different types of issue - CVE-2007-4103 is basically
resource exhaustion via "malformed" handshakes, and CVE-2008-1923 involves
Smurf-ish traffic amplification being sent to a spoofed address.

- Steve

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