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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:26:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: hanno@...eck.de
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Two out of bounds reads in Zstandard / zstd

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> https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/26-Two-out-of-bounds-reads-in-Zstandard-zstd.html

Although this research is enormously helpful to Zstandard development
(e.g., see the
https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd/issues/49#issuecomment-150550342
comment), we feel that it may be outside the scope of CVE because
Zstandard cannot yet be considered a "product."

> https://github.com/Cyan4973/zstd/blob/master/README.md

> Zstd has not yet reached "stable" status. Specifically, it doesn't
> guarantee yet that its current compressed format will remain stable
> and supported in future versions. ... "Stable Format" is projected
> sometimes early 2016

> you can now safely test zstd


> http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2015/01/zstd-stronger-compression-algorithm.html?showComment=1423604634493#c3703448798429358177

> this format is not yet considered stable.
> The objective is to make it stable by year end.
> When it will be, the library number will become 1.0.

Also, we think that Zstandard is, for example, not shipped in any
well-known Linux distribution. When a piece of code is offered
primarily for testing, discoveries of exploitable problems often have
low interest among CVE consumers.

- -- 
CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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