oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- GMime-2.4.15

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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 13:16:09 -0500 (EST)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- GMime-2.4.15


----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hi Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
>    GMime upstream has released latest 2.4.15 [1] version of the
> library fixing one security issue. From 2.4.15-changes [2] file:
> 
> 2010-01-31  Jeffrey Stedfast  <fejj@...ell.com>
> 
> 	* gmime/gmime-encodings.h (GMIME_UUENCODE_LEN): Fixed to prevent
> 	possible buffer overflows.
> 
> References:
> 
> [1] http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/
> [2]
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.15.changes
> [3]
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.14-2.4.15.diff.gz
> [4] http://secunia.com/advisories/38459/
> 
> Could you allocate a CVE id for this?
> 

Please use CVE-2010-0409 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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