oss-security - Re: CVE Request (nagios)

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Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:18:20 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
cc: Andreas Ericsson <ae@....se>, Eygene Ryabinkin <rea-sec@...elabs.ru>,
        oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE Request (nagios)

On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:

>   I can't follow this. Nagios 3.0.5 should fix two issues:

Neither can I.  I'm not sure if we need to clean up the CVE descriptions
or not.

Note that general CVE practice is - if you have vuln X in version 1, and
you don't completely fix X, then we give a separate CVE for version 2.

In this case, I'd probably want to modify CVE-2008-5028 to say it's
related to "submission of external commands" which is in the 3.0.6
changelog, then refer to the original, pre-3.0.5 CSRF as the "Tim
Starling" bug or something like that.

- Steve

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