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Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:02:50 +0100
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: openssl: null pointer dereference
issue
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:46:07 -0600 Kurt Seifried wrote:
> Please use CVE-2012-1165 for this issue.
To clarify, the reply should have looked as:
-- 8< --
> Note that additional similar issue in mime_param_cmp was fixed in
> 0.9.8u and 1.0.0h as:
> http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22252
>
> This can also be triggered by malformed S/MIME message.
Please use CVE-2012-1165 for this issue.
> The above commit also corrects an issue with the previous mime_hdr_cmp
> fix that could cause the function to return either "less than" or
> "greater than" when comparing NULL to non-NULL. There's no known
> security impact of this change, it seems it could cause verification /
> decryption to fail when it can succeed. Reported by "bla".
-- 8< --
to make ti clear that CVE-2012-1165 is for the mime_param_cmp issue
rather than mime_hdr_cmp fix correction.
--
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team
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