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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.51.0910162306280.9854@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:08:44 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request: oping allows the disclosure of
arbitrary file contents
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Josh Bressers wrote:
> ----- "Julien Tinnes" <julien.tinnes@...il.com> wrote:
>
> I took a look in the oping source. Without another security flaw, this
> is just a bug, oping doesn't do anything while still root that could be
> an issue. I agree that it should be fixed, it is a serious bug, but an
> attacker cannot do anything nefarious with this flaw.
I agree with Josh, this would argue for *not* assigning a CVE, even though
it's a serious bug.
- Steve
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