oss-security - Re: CVE request for Thunar (format string errors)

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Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:17:21 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request for Thunar (format string errors)

----- Original Message -----
> > >
> > http://git.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/commit/?id=03dd312e157d4fa8a11d5fa402706ae5b05806fa
> > > and is triggered when copy/pasting a file named from a format string.
> > > There's no released version including the fix right now.
> >
> > This would probably qualify.
> 
> Even if the user has to manually Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V the file in Thunar?
> Thanks.
> >

This sounds like it's worth a CVE id. It's likely that the various gcc
protections aren't used in all situations.

Use CVE-2011-1588

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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