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Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:30:58 +0200
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- PHP 5 - 5.2.11

Hi,
* Joe Orton <jorton@...hat.com> [2009-09-18 16:11]:
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 03:23:43PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote:
> > * Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com> [2009-09-18 13:52]:
> > >   PHP has released another upstream 5.2 release, fixing
> > > four security issues:
> > > 
> > > http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
> > > http://www.php.net/downloads.php
> > > 
> > > Could you please allocate CVE identifiers?
> > 
> > What is the security impact of:
> > Fixed bug #44683 (popen crashes when an invalid mode is passed). (Pierre)
> > ?
> 
> This would appear to be:
> 
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc?view=revision&revision=287779
> 
> which is Windows-specific.

I was more wondering why this is a security issue rather 
than a bug.

Cheers
Nico
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