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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:50:23 +0200
From: Peter Bex <Peter.Bex@...all.nl>
To: Open Source Security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: OS command injection vulnerability in Chicken Scheme

On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 01:33:12PM -0600, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > The full announcement is here: 
> > http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-announce/2013-04/msg00000.html
> 
> Please use CVE-2013-2024 for this issue.

Thank you.

> > By the way, I'm confused as to why the CVEs I've requested so far
> > don't show up in NVD.  For example, 
> > http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-6122 says
> > the CVE does not exist, but Kurt assigned it in February: 
> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/08/2
> > 
> > The other CVE numbers in that mail produce a "not found" page as
> > well and an NVD database search for "chicken" turns up nothing
> > related to Chicken Scheme.  The page says the database was last
> > updated April 19th 2013, so that's not the cause either.
> 
> Because Mitre has a large backlog of CVE's to research and write up.
> Submitting researched/written entries to them will probably result in
> your entries being posted faster. Try to remember that CVE pushed
> thousands of these a year, the volume is considerable.

What sort of information would they require, besides the advisory
I posted in my mail?  If there's something I can do better to make
their lives easier, I will certainly consider it!

> Apologies for the late reply

No problem!

Cheers,
Peter
-- 
http://www.more-magic.net

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