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Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:36:45 +0200
From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@...e.cz>
To: Caolán McNamara <caolanm@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
	"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
	officesecurity@...ts.freedesktop.org,
	David Tardon <dtardon@...hat.com>,
	Carlo Di Dato <shinnai@...istici.org>
Subject: Re: [Officesecurity] CVE Request (minor) -- LibreOffice (X >=
 v3.5.0): DoS (excessive CPU use) in the RTF tokenizer

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 01:33:07PM +0100, Caolán McNamara <caolanm@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 14:14 +0200, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> > Though Caolán , Miklos or LibreOffice upstream can clarify further if
> > this should be considered to be a security flaw (due to internal
> > implementation details I am not aware of and might lead to memory
> > corruption announced at [7]).
> 
> nah, insta-crash with a -1 passed to new(...) so throws bad_alloc,
> "safe" crash.

+1, as far as I see.

Miklos

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