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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:16:23 +0100
From: Nico Golde <oss-security+ml@...lde.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVEs for zzuf crashers?

Hi Hanno,
* Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de> [2008-03-28 00:26]:
> Sam Hovecar has created zzuf more than a year ago and posted a bunch of 
> samples crashing various multimedia and other apps:
> http://sam.zoy.org/blog/2007-01-16-exposing-file-parsing-vulnerabilities
> 
> I've done some re-testing about a year later:
> http://hboeck.de/archives/578-How-long-does-it-take-to-fix-a-crash-bug.html
> 
> Some are still unfixed, I recently opened some upstream bug reports:
[...] 
Since a crash itself in a non-service appliction is not necessary
a security issue I think we should check them in detail 
before assigning CVE ids for them (does not mean they are 
non-issues though).

Kind regards
Nico
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