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Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.1006031600150.1650@faron.mitre.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2010 16:14:39 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@...hat.com>,
Jindrich Novy <jnovy@...hat.com>, Florian Festi <ffesti@...hat.com>,
Matt McCutchen <matt@...tmccutchen.net>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- rpm -- Fails to remove the SUID/SGID
bits on package upgrade (RH BZ#598775)
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Josh Bressers wrote:
> I'm going to give both of these the same CVE id. The issues are very
> related, and I had look at the CWE guide, they both seem to fall under
> "CWE-281: Improper Preservation of Permissions"
>
> Steve, feel free to overrule me on this one.
At a low level of granularity, it can be overkill to distinguish between
closely-related flaw types.
The factor of concern here is that Red Hat bug 598775 suggests that the
first variant was committed to a changeset, but not the second. I can't
(quickly) assess whether upstream committed changes for both variants, but
if there's only a commit for the first one (and a public release), then
maybe we consider these bugs as "almost-but-not-quite the same version"
and assign a separate CVE.
We also use time lag between disclosures as a splitter, but these were
more-or-less within a 24-hour period, which we typically treat as "same
day."
This is fuzzy on both vuln type and version... I defer to others who can
shed more insight on the question of whether these versions are different
enough.
- Steve
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