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Message-Id: <200803081818.48668.rbu@gentoo.org>
Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2008 18:18:48 +0100
From: Robert Buchholz <rbu@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
tss@....fi
Subject: Re: CVE? CCE? dovecot setting is often used incorrectly
On Saturday 08 March 2008, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Jonathan Smith:
> > I've been trying to figure out what to do with this one. I'm not
> > inclined to believe it deserves a CVE given that it is
> > configuration (either dovecot config or filesystem permissions
> > configuration). I read once on mitre.org about "Common
> > Configuration Enumeration" aka "CCE" issues, but I've never seen
> > them actually used. Maybe this is a good candidate?
>
> Debian will release a security update with a patch, so we need a CVE
> anyway. We might use one from our pool (after all, it's an interplay
> between our default MTA and Dovecot, and may not be very widespread),
> or we might reference a generic one. I don't know which one is
> better.
For the generic issue you can use CVE-2008-1199.
Robert
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