oss-security - RE: VideoLAN TiVo Demuxer Duplicate CVEs (CVE-2011-5231 and CVE-2012-0023)

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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:59:28 +0000
From: "Christey, Steven M." <coley@...re.org>
To: Sean Amoss <ackle@...too.org>, Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures
	<cve@...re.org>, "Christey, Steven M." <coley@...re.org>
CC: "oss-security@...ts.openwall.com" <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>,
	Gentoo Linux Security Team <security@...too.org>, "xtophe@...eolan.org"
	<xtophe@...eolan.org>
Subject: RE: VideoLAN TiVo Demuxer Duplicate CVEs (CVE-2011-5231 and
 CVE-2012-0023)

Sean,

Thank you for noticing this.

CVE-2011-5231 was an accidental duplicate of CVE-2012-0023, and it was only released a couple days ago.

CVE-2012-0023 has been in use since January.

Google search results show that CVE-2012-0023 has many more hits.

Even though the issue was first published in December 2011 and CVE-2012-0023 has "2012" in the name, this off-by-one is very common for identifiers for issues published in December/January of any year.

So, even though it's not "aesthetically appropriate," keep CVE-2012-0023 and REJECT CVE-2011-5231.

- Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Amoss [mailto:ackle@...too.org] 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:27 PM
To: Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures; Steven M. Christey
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com; Gentoo Linux Security Team; xtophe@...eolan.org
Subject: VideoLAN TiVo Demuxer Duplicate CVEs (CVE-2011-5231 and CVE-2012-0023)

Steve, MITRE, vendors:

It appears that there may be two CVE's for the same issue:

CVE-2011-5231 - Double free vulnerability in the get_chunk_header
function in modules/demux/ty.c in VideoLAN VLC media player 0.9.0
through 1.1.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service
(crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted TiVo (TY) file.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-5231

References to http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1108.html

=======================================================================

CVE-2012-0023 - Buffer overflow in VLC TiVo demuxer

CVE Assignment: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/03/12

References http://www.videolan.org/security/sa1108.html in assignment above

Thanks,
Sean
-- 
Sean Amoss
Gentoo Security | GLSA Coordinator
E-Mail	  : ackle@...too.org
GnuPG FP  : E58A AABD DD2D 03AF 0A7A 2F14 1877 72EC E928 357A

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