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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, coley@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE request: irssi 0.8.15
On Mon, 12 Apr 2010, Josh Bressers wrote:
>> "This release fixes two security issues: The first being that Irssi
>> didn't check hostname on SSL connections and the other being a hard
>> to
>> exploit remote crash bug."
> >
> The crash bits mentioned in the changelog are very ambiguous. The git tree
> isn't any more clear than that. There appear to be two crashes, both sound
> like NULL pointer dereferences that cannot be triggered by an attacker. If
> I'm wrong, please speak up.
Josh, I think we should assign another CVE anyway. The upstream vendor
has explicitly labeled this as a security issue, so even if it seems of
limited severity, that's enough to trigger creation of a CVE. The use of
the "remote crash" term also reinforces the need for a CVE.
This might be juse a plain old crasher from the perspective of many
downstream vendors, but it's still worthy of inclusion in CVE because
there is a significant population that would treat it as a "security"
problem even if it's low severity.
Should I assign one or should you?
- Steve
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