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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:21:59 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.com>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
pkg-shadow-devel@...ts.alioth.debian.org,
CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] subuid security patches
for shadow package
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:48:52PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The first point looks like a non issue to me.
>
> getlogin() is used to differentiate users with the same UID.
> The result of getlogin() is checked: if it returns a username that do not
> have the UID returned by getuid(), it will be ignored.
@MITRE CVE assignment team: This is for CVE-2016-6251. See above and
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358622#c2 .
Should this CVE be REJECTED?
Regards,
Salvatore
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