oss-security - Re: CVE requests: ffmpeg/widelands/jifty::db/lilo/libpcap

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Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 11:43:34 +0200
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE requests:
 ffmpeg/widelands/jifty::db/lilo/libpcap

On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 08:55:25AM +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> Josh Bressers wrote:
> > > 5. libpcap packet truncation
> > > 
> > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=623868
> > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.tcpdump.devel/5018
> > 
> > Use CVE-2011-1935
> 
> Does that really qualify as security issue? Just a bug IMO.

I can lead to insufficient network monitoring.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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