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Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 17:59:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: siddharth@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Request for CVE assignment for tigervnc affected by similar flaws as in CVE-2014-6051 and CVE-2014-6052 of libvncserver
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> I would want to get different CVE's assigned for tigervnc as it is
> affected by similar flaws of libvncserver ( CVE-2014-6051 and
> CVE-2014-6052 ).
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151307
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1151312
First, in general, when asking for a CVE assignment for an issue
"similar" to an existing CVE, it is very useful to provide an
additional statement or reference indicating why the issue should not
be mapped to the existing CVE. A difference in the product name does
not always require a separate CVE.
In this case, 1151307 is noted as similar to CVE-2014-6051.
CVE-2014-6051 is a frequently seen type of mistake (width * height
leads to integer overflow) and it's entirely plausible that this
mistake would occur independently in different codebases that have
related purposes.
Use CVE-2014-8240 for 1151307.
Also, 1151312 is noted as similar to CVE-2014-6052. CVE-2014-6052 is a
frequently seen type of mistake: essentially, there's a number that
can be sent in a manner compatible with a protocol specification, and
the number might even be sensible in an environment with huge
resources, but the number is used for a malloc argument without
checking whether malloc succeeds. (In other words, it's not
necessarily worthwhile to validate the number before calling malloc.)
It's entirely plausible that this mistake would occur independently in
different codebases that have related purposes.
Use CVE-2014-8241 for 1151312.
MITRE didn't try to find the specific vulnerable TigerVNC code in an
attempt to prove that that code wasn't a derivative of LibVNCServer.
We happened to notice a piece of code that may or may not be related
to CVE-2014-8241, and decided that it didn't look like a derivative.
Specifically:
https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/blob/d1a853bca7a70467915b3759aa9de5e63a5e8edb/vncviewer/X11PixelBuffer.cxx#L109
xim->data = (char*)malloc(xim->bytes_per_line * xim->height);
if (!xim->data)
throw rfb::Exception(_("Not enough memory for framebuffer"));
looks different from:
https://github.com/newsoft/libvncserver/commit/85a778c0e45e87e35ee7199f1f25020648e8b812
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