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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:40:05 +0200
From: CERT-FI Vulnerability Co-ordination <vulncoord@...ora.fi>
To: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, 
 Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>,
 Joe Orton <jorton@...hat.com>, Ondrej Vasik <ovasik@...hat.com>, 
 Roman Rakus <rrakus@...hat.com>,
 CERT-FI Vulnerability Co-ordination <vulncoord@...ora.fi>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- expat [was: Re: Regarding expat
 bug 1990430]

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Hello all,

Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> Based on the above -^ I would vote for separate CVE identifier for expat
> flaw
> (and its embedded copies in dozen of packages):
> 
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615#c8
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=280615#c10

As far as we understand, the expat flaw in question is in no way related
to CVE-2009-2625, or other recent XML parser flaws. Therefore our take
is that it should have a distinct CVE entry.

- -Jussi / CERT-FI
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