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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:40:21 +0200
From: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Henri S." <henri@...v.fi>, robert@...rs.sf.net
Subject: Re: A bunch of duplicate CVEs requested for?? bho..

On martedì 29 agosto 2017 20:19:25 CEST Henri S. wrote:
> Hello ago,
> 
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:46:22PM +0200, Agostino Sarubbo wrote:
> > Some CVEs about lame was issued, also there are an high number of
> > vulnerabilities never confirmed by upstream nor posted on their bug
> > tracking system. Yes, sometimes I receive emails that say that the bug is
> > not reproducible but I'm always trying to help to reproduce. Instead some
> > report says: "If you want the poc please contact me at $email"
> 
> I'm currently fuzzing LAME with help from Robert Hegemann who is upstream. I
> understand that the latest LAME release in the web page is from 2012, but
> hopefully we will get a new release after the fuzzing is finished. If there
> are any outstanding issues from your fuzzing feel free to contact me and I
> can verify that those are fixed in the CVS version of it (link below). I
> can check your blog for related issues at least. Robert has been fixing the
> issues very quickly after reports. I also plan to fuzz other argument
> combinations. Maybe we can even include LAME to oss-fuzz later on if
> upstream agrees.
> 
> http://lame.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lame/lame/
> 
> Recently closed issues:
> 
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/464/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/465/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/466/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/467/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/468/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/470/
> https://sourceforge.net/p/lame/bugs/472/
> 
> All feedback is welcome regarding my fuzzing activities. You can also
> contact me via IRC in e.g. #afl-users in Freenode if you want to
> participate in CVS build fuzzing. If not I can also notify you after the
> next release.
> > How to avoid to file duplicate?
> 
> Maybe giving them a link for documentation how to avoid this in the future.
> 
> CCing robert without permission :)


Hello Henri,

lame was just an example, but it wasn't the point. The point was about the 
reporter's behavior and the world around the cve assignments.

-- 
Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo Linux Developer

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