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Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:32:12 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: wmealing@...hat.com
Subject: Re: CVE request  for VDSM denial of service

On 08/10/14 03:34 AM, Sven Kieske wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/10/14 09:34, Wade Mealing wrote:
>> Gday,
>>
>> The issue (outlined here https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1148688 ) allows
>> an attacker to hold open an ssl connection effectively denying new connections the
>> ability to complete any new ssl connections.
>>
>> I would like a CVE number to assign to this issue.  Please assign me one.
> 
> Doesn't RH assign it's own CVEs anymore?

We do, but for public issues we prefer to ask here sometimes so as to
prevent duplicate assignments (e.g. it is possible for a race condition
to occur, Red Hat and Mitre both see something new, we see no CVE for it
so we both assign one).

I believe this one is
https://www.mail-archive.com/vdsm-patches@lists.fedorahosted.org/msg68420.html
(but don't quote me, wmealing is in .au and asleep so I can't confirm).

> I also wonder why this bug wasn't reported to upstream
> (wrong BZ "Product" at least it should get cloned to ovirt).

Because we learned about it from an upstream source.



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Kurt Seifried -- Red Hat -- Product Security -- Cloud
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