oss-security - Re: Mozilla CVE duplicate

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Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 20:50:09 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: Mozilla CVE duplicate

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 07:49:13AM -0400, Josh Bressers wrote:
> > 
> > > CVE-2008-4067 is a duplicate of CVE-2007-3073, both reference
> > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=380994 and the
> > > reporter is identical.
> > 
> > This seems to be the case.  Josh Bressers, can you confirm?
> > CVE-2007-3073
> > is associated with comment #16 in bug 367428, but later comments for
> > bug
> > 367428 seem to suggest it's the same (or almost the same) as bug
> > 380994.
> > 
> > If these are dupes, then CVE-2008-4067 would be preferred due to usage
> > by
> > more authoritative sources, and more commonly referenced.
> 
> Argh, yeah they're the same.  Sorry about that.

Ok, we'll treat CVE-2007-3073 as rejected, then.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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