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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 18:41:22 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
officesecurity@...ts.freedesktop.org,
David Tardon <dtardon@...hat.com>, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@...e.cz>,
Carlo Di Dato <shinnai@...istici.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [Officesecurity] CVE Request (minor) --
LibreOffice (X >= v3.5.0): DoS (excessive CPU use) in the RTF
tokenizer
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:33:07PM +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote:
> > [8] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48640#c1 ('DoS PoC')
> >
> > This one (on LibreOffice >= v.3.5.0 using the new RTF tokenizer implementation)
> > truly leads to denial of service (excessive CPU consumption and hang) while
> > trying to process that RTF file. So this case might be applicable
> > for CVE-2012-* identifier assignment.
>
> Dunno about this, I mean if we're going to go around assigning CVEs to
> every busy-hang we'd be knee deep in CVEs by the end of a week.
I agree. For an application profile such as an office suite handing out CVE
IDs to crash/CPU overload bug w/o potential of code injection is a waste
of time and impractical.
Cheers,
Moritz
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