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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:54:22 +0000
From: "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@...m-barratt.org.uk>
To: <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>, Mark Stanislav
 <mark.stanislav@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE Requests

On 16.03.2012 10:26, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Those mails are all exemplary requests for CVE id's, ofcourse, but 
> the
> fact that they are all already fixed and released means that 100% of
> the work is already done. At that point, assigning a CVE id is mostly
> useless and is done as a "just for the record" thing.

Whether you consider it useless or not, those are the CVE assignments 
that will happen on the list, aiui.

http://oss-security.openwall.org/wiki/mailing-lists/oss-security 
specifically says: "Public security issues only please. What you say 
here is public for the world to see - keep that in mind. Embargoed 
information is best disclosed to vendor-sec" (which should be updated to 
point at somewhere that actually exists).

Regards,

Adam

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