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Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 21:21:39 +0200
From: Tomas Hoger <thoger@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey"
 <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>,
        Ian Weller
 <ianweller@...oraproject.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request (minor) -- Python 3.2: DoS when
 matching certificate with many '*' wildcard characters {was: 
 CVE Request (minor) --  python-backports-ssl_match_hostname: Denial of
 service when matching certificate with many '*' wildcard characters }

On Wed, 15 May 2013 19:51:38 -0600 Kurt Seifried wrote:

> On 05/15/2013 05:28 AM, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:

> > Replying to myself here. Issue is present in Python 3.2 code too -
> > so the CVE should be allocated for the original (Python 3.2) code,
> > rather than to python-backports-ssl_match_hostname package.

...

> Please use CVE-2013-2099 for this issue.

There should be no need for two separate CVEs for this issue.
Problematic match_hostname was developed in Python 3.  As its
functionality is needed by Python 2 users, and it is not provided by
the standard library, Python 3 implementation was made available via
different module.  It's the same code, packaged in python (3.x) and
python-backports-ssl_match_hostname packages.  The same CVE should
apply to both.

Given that CVE-2013-2099 was assigned to Python 3 ssl, CVE-2013-2098
seems like the one to reject as dupe.

-- 
Tomas Hoger / Red Hat Security Response Team

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