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Message-ID: <2144085049.2142031284165154353.JavaMail.root@zmail01.collab.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:32:34 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: David Malcolm <dmalcolm@...hat.com>,
        "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Python -- accept() implementation
 in async core is broken => more subcases

Steve,

I'm going to leave this one up to you. While it's really a python bug, I
suspect several affected projects will end up patching themselves (I'm not
sure how MITRE hadnles this situation).

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hello Steve, vendors,
> 
>    Giampaolo Rodola reported a deficiency in the implementation of
> Python's accept() routine:
>    [1] http://bugs.python.org/issue6706
> 
>    The following seems to be all symptoms for the same issue:
>    A, SMTP (smtpd.py):
>       [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632200
>       [3] http://bugs.python.org/issue9129
> 
>    B, pyftpdlib:
>       [4] http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib/issues/detail?id=104
> 
>    C, ZODB:
>       [5] https://bugs.launchpad.net/zodb/+bug/135108
> 
>    D, more?
> 
> Not sure, how to proceed in this case:
> i,  if assign only one CVE id for [1] or,
> ii, assign also separate CVE ids for the child symptoms? ([2], [3],
> [4])
> 
> Cc-ed David Malcom on this post, to shed more light how to handle this
> case.
> 
> Once the way, how to further proceed with this, specified. Steve could
> you allocate CVE id (ids)?
> 
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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