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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:10:53 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: cmsmadesimple before 1.11.8 / bad
upstream behaviour vs. CVE assignment
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On 10/21/2013 01:20 PM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to request a CVE, but also start some discussion about how
> to handle such issues.
>
> The release notes for cmsmadesimple 1.11.8 mention a security
> issue:
> http://www.cmsmadesimple.org/announcing-cmsms-1-11-8-fioreana/
> "This release brings a few minor features, some performance
> improvements, documentation improvements, a Smarty upgrade, and a
> number of bug fixes (including a minor security issue)."
>
> Now, this is all the information you get. Nothing about the kind
> of security issue, let alone a bug nr or commit. The question is:
> What do we do with such shitty upstream behaviour?
>
> Last time I reported something alike I was told that I should
> provide more info. The question is: How?
>
> Sure, I could diff the release to the release before or try to
> find some repository and read all the commits in the timeframe. But
> I'm not getting paid for this, I merely want to improve overall
> security of free software voluntarily.
>
> So how will we proceed with such stuff? In the past, we often had
> "CVE for unknown security issue in xxx"-alike assignments.
>
> cu,
>
Yeah, maybe if we can incentivize this research, e.g. give people
credit or something, not for discovering the issue but for researching
it and posting the details/diff/whatever. In general if no details are
available unless there's some reason not to, I would generally hand
these over to Mitre to deal with.
- --
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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