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Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 13:02:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE id request: newsbeuter


On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Nico Golde wrote:

> Please use version 1.2 here as the fix for 1.1 was
> incomplete.

Our interpretation was that 1.1 fixes the vulnerability, but a
non-security bug forced the release of 1.2.  So 1.1, while perhaps
unusable in practice, was safe from the vuln.

Was that an incorrect interpretation?

- Steve

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