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Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2012 16:04:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...-smtp.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: Pidgin


On Wed, 4 Jan 2012, Kurt Seifried wrote:

> Minor issue, but stuff in memory does have a bad habit of ending up in
> other places (swap/etc.). Please use CVE-2011-4922 for this issue.

CVE has some similar precedents for this kind of issue, such as 
CVE-2009-0518, CVE-2008-6828, CVE-2007-2619, CVE-2005-0604, CVE-2003-0048, 
CVE-2006-2662, and probably more recent issues too.  Granted it's minor.

- Steve

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