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Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2014 19:07:00 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, dkg@...thhorseman.net
CC: cve-assign@...re.org, fweimer@...hat.com,
"Christey, Steven M." <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: Re: kwallet crypto misuse
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On 01/02/2014 12:45 PM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> Thanks very much for this additional information. At this point,
> it seems very unlikely that the "\0a\0b\0c\0d" issue will have an
> additional CVE assignment. We were asking just because of the
> possibility of a clear implementation error in which security was
> weakened by using a "wrong" character width.
>
>> Do you think MITRE or other folks should be recommending
>> pre-whitening the strings before encrypting them
>
> It's possible that a group elsewhere at MITRE would work on
> recommendations in that area or other areas. For purposes of the
> CVE assignments in this situation, that type of opportunity for
> security improvement wasn't being considered.
Hrmm, I assumed this would be handled a lot by getting things accepted
in CWE (http://cwe.mitre.org/), and once done that means we can start
assigning CVEs for them.
Stupid question but what is the process to propose a new CWE? I poked
around the site but can't find any hints.
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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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