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Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 14:19:59 +0530
From: Mohammad Tausif Siddiqui <msiddiqu@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Wade Mealing <wmealing@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel: nfc: null ptr dereference in llcp_sock_getname

[Update] Root CNA MITRE marked rejected CVE-2021-3587 for CVE-2021-38208.

CVE-2021-38208 to be used for this issue.

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3587
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38208


On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 5:57 PM Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 04:17:38PM +0800, butt3rflyh4ck wrote:
> > Hi, MITRE has assigned CVE-2021-38208 to this issue,
> > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-38208
> >
> > The CVE-2021-3587 assigned by Redhat was 'RESERVED' now.
> > https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3587
> >
> > There was some confusion here, Maybe CVE-2021-3587 should be 'REJECT'.
>
> I wonder if it would actually be better the other way around, but
> leaving the decision to MITRE CNA and Red Hat: Several downstream
> Linux distrubutions seem to have already used CVE-2021-3587 in their
> advisories, so rejecting CVE-2021-38208 would seem to cause less
> turnarounds). But I have a biased view here, at least Debian, Ubuntu,
> Slackware, Fedora and Mageia used already accordingly CVE-2021-3587.
>
> Regards,
> Salvatore
>
>

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