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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:30:08 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Nick Kralevich <nnk@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request -- kernel: execshield: predictable
ascii armour base address
On 03/20/2012 10:01 AM, Nick Kralevich wrote:
> Can someone explain to me why this is worthy of a CVE? I can see this as a
> bug of course. But a "vulnerability"?
>
> This bug, by itself, does not cause a vulnerability. It just makes
> vulnerabilities easier to exploit. I'm not sure this is worthy of a CVE
> unless we're willing to assign CVEs to all fixed address allocations.
>
> -- Nick
To quote Steven on a previous issue:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/177
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In this case, the product's security feature is not living up to its
advertised capability (by generating shorter passwords than expected)
so, even if it's not that severe an issue, it's probably still of some
importance to some people.
===================
in this case replace "shorter passwords" with "random addresses that are
not random".
--
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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