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Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:41:16 -0500
From: Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: libical 0.47 SEGV on unknown address


> On Jun 25, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.com> wrote:
> 
> On 06/24/16 06:54 AM, Brandon Perry wrote:
>> I am posting this to Full Disclosure/OSS instead of reporting it because I have
>> opened a handful of libical bugs in the Mozilla bug tracker, alerted
>> security@...illa.org <mailto:security@...illa.org>, and worked to show how and
>> where to reproduce the bugs in Thunderbird, but Mozilla hasn’t shown any care at
>> all about the bugs. Perhaps if I give a sample to the community of the bugs in
>> the bug reports, Mozilla will take the bug reports more seriously. This bug
>> attached had not been reported yet.
> 
> Did you report them to libcial upstream?  http://libical.github.io/libical/ <http://libical.github.io/libical/>

I had initially asked for contact information regarding reporting potentially sensitive security test cases, but after a couple of days, I decided to look into another product that I figured would have more visibility and more power to get things fixed.

https://github.com/libical/libical/issues/235 <https://github.com/libical/libical/issues/235>
> 
>> My roommate mentioned Thunderbird being a second-class citizen in the Mozilla
>> world, so if this is the case, this should be made explicit in regards to bug
>> bounty expectations.
> 
> While Thunderbird is still a beloved child of Mozilla, it's been told it's time
> to move out of its parents house and find its own sources of income/support:
> 
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.governance/kAyVlhfEcXg/Eqyx1X62BQAJ
> https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2015/12/thunderbird-active-daily-inquiries-surpass-10-million/
> 
> --
> 	-Alan Coopersmith-              alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
> 	 Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc


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