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Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 14:12:35 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: FreeRDP tmp flaws

Ah poop, I remembered http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q1/170 wrong, I
though if the code existed that was enough, not that the code had to
exist AND be enabled, OR enabled through a compiler flag for example. My
bad.

On 05/27/2015 09:28 AM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>> This may need 2 CVE's
> 
> We think there should be zero CVEs because the report is apparently
> about a developer's debugging code that was never shipped.
> 
>> ./channels/drdynvc/tsmf/tsmf_media.c
>> "/tmp/FreeRDP_Frame_%d.ppm"
> 
> As far as we can tell, this code has been in an "#if 0" starting from
> when the code was originally added to FreeRDP in:
> 
>   https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/commit/dadb94a1e343648503949094a50053d81212a153
> 
> In other words, we don't think this code would ever have been
> reachable by an end user. The "#if 0" also apparently exists in the
> freerdp-1.0.2.tar.gz that's included in the
> freerdp-1.0.2-5.el7.src.rpm file.
> 
>> ./libfreerdp-gdi/gdi.c
>> #ifdef DUMP_REMOTEFX_TILES
>>                        sprintf(tile_bitmap, "/tmp/rfx/tile_%d.bmp",
> 
> As far as we can tell, there is no build option for
> DUMP_REMOTEFX_TILES or documentation recommending that an end user
> define DUMP_REMOTEFX_TILES, either in the upstream distribution or in
> a source RPM.
> 
>> Actually it looks like upstream fixed both of them already so one CVE
>> can do (I don't think it's important enough to SPLIT/MERGE properly).
> 
> Even if there were a different SPLIT/MERGE process for less important
> cases, a single CVE ID for issues reported in different versions would
> be among the harder process changes because it affects whether (or
> how) the CVE ID could be used on the cve.mitre.org web site, and
> complicates some types of patch-based remediation.
> 
> 

-- 
Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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