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Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:07:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Critical vuln in Firefox 3.0
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Nico Golde wrote:
> Let's wait until they publish their advisory, having a CVE
> id without any useful description now doesn't help anyone.
At this stage, I believe that a CVE identifier is important. Here, it
serves two roles:
1) being absolutely sure we know which Firefox 3.0 issue is being
discussed - which can be done if a CVE description is anchored on a
particular reference or source.
2) Tracking, then eventually resolving, confusion between multiple
disclosures. Granted we don't always succeed at this, but it's a goal.
So, I've assigned CVE-2008-2785 for the unspecified issue being claimed by
Tipping Point.
But, I've also assigned a separate CVE-2008-2786 for a Full-Disclosure
post talking about a buffer overflow. Typically I try to avoid creating
CVEs for these - anyone could claim "I found BUG-TYPE X in product Z" and
there's no way of proving things - but here, there's likely some confusion
about whether the FD post is the same as ZDI's or not. And ZDI is
specifically not saying anything about that.
- Steve
======================================================
Name: CVE-2008-2785
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2785
Reference: MISC:http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/06/18/vulnerability-in-mozilla-firefox-30
Reference: BID:29802
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29802
Reference: FRSIRT:ADV-2008-1873
Reference: URL:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1873
Reference: SECUNIA:30761
Reference: URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/30761
Reference: XF:firefox-unspecified-code-execution(43167)
Reference: URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43167
Unspecified vulnerability in Firefox 3.0 and 2.0.x has unknown impact
and remote attack vectors, aka ZDI-CAN-349.
======================================================
Name: CVE-2008-2786
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2786
Reference: FULLDISC:20080618 Coming soon : Firefox 3 Release overflow
Reference: URL:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-June/062832.html
Reference: BID:29794
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29794
Buffer overflow in Firefox 3.0 and 2.0.x has unknown impact and attack
vectors. NOTE: due to lack of details as of 20080619, it is not clear
whether this is the same issue as CVE-2008-2785. A CVE identifier has
been assigned for tracking purposes.
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