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Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:54:54 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: mwlib < 0.13.5 DoS flaw
On 03/05/2012 10:06 AM, Vincent Danen wrote:
> Could a CVE be assigned to the following please?
>
> It was reported that mwlib suffered from a flaw that could allow a
> remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack on a mwlib
> installation by forcing it to parse a specially-crafted #iferror magic
> function. This has been corrected in upstream version 0.13.5.
>
> References:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/mwlib/browse_thread/thread/c2bd1cee77a8a79?hl=en
>
> http://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/pull/10&usg=AFQjCNHgoXQUYFtEj0L8VP5K8Xn_GoTOyw
>
> https://github.com/pediapress/mwlib/commit/aa987c281c10e29f26aa0faa21c04f3bb1167fde
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=800064
>
Please use CVE-2012-1109 for this issue.
--
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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