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Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 13:01:37 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Jeff Mitchell <mitchell@....org>,
Charlie Miller <charlie.miller@...uvant.com>,
"Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request for Calligra
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On 08/06/2012 06:45 AM, Jeff Mitchell wrote:
> On 08/05/2012 07:27 PM, Charlie Miller wrote:
>> Hi Kurt.
>>
>> Yes, sorry I didn't report directly to the correct people. I
>> only knew that the vulnerability existed for sure in the Nokia
>> Documents app and also in the version of Koffice I happen to have
>> on my system. I didn't know what library it was in (I'd never
>> even heard of Calligra), if it was already known about upstream,
>> what other software depend on this library, etc. As you're
>> probably aware, it can be a very time consuming process to try to
>> get that stuff sorted out, so I just report it to the vendor and
>> let them deal with these issues. In that spirit, I reported to
>> Nokia early last month. As for your questions, I have not asked
>> for CVE's for any of these vulnerabilities. Feel free to request
>> them yourselves. I believe the only vulnerability I know enough
>> details about to say is a security issue is the one in the
>> document about parsing word documents. I hope that clears up any
>> questions you might have. Thanks!
>
> Hi there,
>
> As you may have heard, Nokia has a few issues these days with
> MeeGo, so it's not surprising that they haven't contacted upstreams
> if you reported it to them :-)
>
> Calligra is a (maintained) fork of KOffice. At this point it's not
> clear to me, based on commit activity, if KOffice is maintained.
>
> Regardless, I guess I'd like a CVE for both (or two CVEs, depending
> on your preferences).
>
> --Jeff
It looks like koffice is mostly dead so I'm going to consider calligra a
forked code base (since it is maintained =), so 2 CVE's.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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