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Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:13:09 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Unbound v1.4.3 -- 64 bit platforms
 specific remote DoS

* [2010-03-16 21:08:27 +0100] Tomas Hoger wrote:

>On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:56:31 -0600 Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
>wrote:
>
>> >  Unbound upstream has released latest, v1.4.3 version:
>> >  [1] http://www.unbound.net/download.html
>> >
>> >  addressing one denial of service issue, specific to 64 bit
>> >  platforms.
>> >
>> >References:
>> >  [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309117
>> >
>> >Could you allocate CVE id for it?
>>
>> Please use CVE-2010-0735 for this issue.
>
>This just got CVE-2010-0969 from Mitre:
>
>Unbound before 1.4.3 does not properly align structures on 64-bit
>platforms, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
>(daemon crash) via unspecified vectors.

Oh ouch.  Yeah, I see it now.  Talk about poor timing.

Please do _not_ use CVE-2010-0735 for this issue, but use CVE-2010-0969
instead.

Thanks, Tomas.

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 

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