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Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 19:55:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Jorm <djorm@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, David Walser <luigiwalser@...oo.com>
Cc: marcus@....franken.de, lwn@....net
Subject: Re: tomcat CVE confusion
> OpenSuSE has issued an advisory for tomcat today:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00014.html
>
> This is also linked from LWN here:
> http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/562439/
>
> This CVE-2013-3544 is not mentioned on tomcat's security page:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
>
> But CVE-2012-3544 is mentioned there (note the different year).
>
> Based on this Novell/OpenSuSE bug report, I believe OpenSuSE made a typo:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831119
>
> I can't find any info about CVE-2013-3544, but the mitre page says it's
> reserved. Perhaps that CVE has already been allocated for some other piece
> of software? If so, this might cause some confusion. I'm not sure how this
> should be handled, but I thought it would be appropriate to point this out.
+1 I think it is a typo. The correct CVE ID is 2012-3544:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-3544
David
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