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Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2016 15:43:31 -0400
From: Glenn Randers-Pehrson <glennrp@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: CVE ID Requests <cve-assign@...re.org>
Subject: Re: On anonymous CVE assignments
*CVE*-*2016*-*3751*(H)
On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:
> Also if projects don't like "Surprise" CVEs one way to deal with that is to
> request the CVE's themselves when they know something is a security
> vulnerability. Also making it easy to contact them helps, the harder you
> make it for a security researcher to deal with you, the less likely they
> are to.
>
It's hard to do that when a "surprise" CVE was never sent to the project,
for example *CVE*-*2016*-*3751*(H) which just appeared in an Android
security
bulletin. It claims that libpng has a bug that allows privilidge escalation
and was reported 3 Dec 2015. I'm guessing that it is a duplicate of
CVE-2015-8126 or CVE-2015-8472, but it's hard to tell for sure without
seeing it. All I've been able to find out is that it is a "reserved" CVE,
with
no clue as to who reserved it.
Glenn Randers-Pehrson
libpng custodian
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