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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:02:02 -0500
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Bill Janssen <bill.janssen@...il.com>, Andreas Hasenack
 <ahasenack@...ra.com.br>, Mads Kiilerich <mads@...lerich.com>, "Steven M.
 Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Mercurial --Doesn't verify
 subject Common Name properly

Hi,

On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 16:58 -0500, Steven M. Christey wrote:
> Ouch, this is painful for a number of reasons.
> 
> Maybe Python "should" get the CVE, but the decision to push the issue to 
> application developers means that those developers will each have to 
> provide fixes, and software consumers will have to track these related 
> vulns at the application level.
> 
> (One could make the same argument about fundamental design flaws in 
> standards-based protocols, for which CVE generally assigns a single 
> identifier, but those issues generally feel "different" to me.  Quite 
> logical, I know...)
> 
> Anyway, I think we need to assign separate CVEs for each affected product 
> as an instance of "an implementation not working around security-relevant 
> design limitations of APIs" (which is consistent with the approach that 
> CVE has taken with respect to the DLL hijacking / insecure library loading 
> issues of the past couple months.)

Thanks for the clarification. Here are some more projects that need CVEs
for this issue:

libcloud:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LIBCLOUD-55
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libcloud/+bug/675217

Checkbox:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/checkbox/+bug/625076

Bazaar:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/651161


Thanks,

Marc.


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Marc Deslauriers
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