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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:38:28 -0700
From: Mark Doliner <mark@...gant.net>
To: Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@...til.org>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Pidgin crash
2011/8/22 Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@...til.org>:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 02:55:34AM -0400, Huzaifa Sidhpurwala wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> >Hi! Would it be possible to issue a CVE for a new crash in Pidgin?
>>
>> >http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=53
>>
>> Please use CVE-2011-2942 for this issue.
>>
>> Also looking at http://pidgin.im/news/security it seems two other security issues were also
>> fixed in 2.10.0, do you want CVEs to be assigned for them as well?
>
> Please do. Since they're published in the form of upstream advisories
> we'd like to properly track them in the Debian Security Tracker.
That's fine by me. As an upstream developer I don't feel like I have
a strong incentive to obtain a CVE. But if it's helpful to packagers,
than sure.
The two issues in question are discussed here:
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=54
http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=55
The second one only affects Pidgin on Microsoft Windows.
--Mark
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