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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 14:08:14 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Forest Monsen <forest.monsen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE duplicates SA-CONTRIB-2013-075

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On 10/21/2013 09:41 AM, Christey, Steven M. wrote:
> Note that with two CNAs handling already-public issues, there are
> multiple ways that duplicates can arise.  This risk grows as
> MITRE's output increases.  On the MITRE side, we are revisiting our
> procedures for reducing the number of duplicates.  We already
> privately identified the increased duplicate risk with Kurt and
> will work with him to make things more manageable.
> 
> For this specific situation: MITRE processed the Drupal advisories
> on September 25, creating new CVEs that were thus available in NVD
> at approximately 11 AM Eastern time.  Forest's request to
> oss-security happened on September 26.  Kurt's response to
> oss-security was on September 27.  So in this case, there were
> multiple opportunities for requesters to check for pre-existing
> CVEs in NVD.
> 
> The MITRE-assigned CVE-2013-5937 and CVE-2013-5938 are in more
> active use and were published first, so they will be kept.
> 
> REJECT CVE-2013-4381 as a duplicate of CVE-2013-5938.
> 
> REJECT CVE-2013-4382 as a duplicate of CVE-2013-5937.
> 
> Forest, please update the advisory to use the MITRE-assigned
> numbers.
> 
> - Steve


Yup, I failed to check because well in past it had never been a
problem and I didn't know Mitre was increasing their output with
respect to the open source public assignments. Hopefully shouldn't
happen again.


- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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