oss-security - CVE request -- firefox, vlc, WeeChat

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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:23:43 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Cc: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE request -- firefox, vlc, WeeChat

Hello Steve,

  1, the following DoS (crash) and null pointer dereference
     has been recently reported against firefox-3.0.7

     References:
     http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262704
     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456727
     http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/8219
     https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448329

  2, vlc 0.9.8a remote DoS (hang)
     
     References:
     http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=262708
     http://milw0rm.com/exploits/8213

  3, WeeChat -- new upstream release 0.2.6.1 with one security
                fix included -- DoS (crash) when receiving special 
                characters in IRC messages

     References:
     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=519940
     http://weechat.flashtux.org/download.php
     https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?25862

Could you please allocate CVE identifiers for these issues?

Thanks, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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