oss-security - Re: CVE UnRequest (minor) -- Pidgin / libpurple -- Cipher API information disclosure

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Message-ID: <4D8767D2.7090606@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:59:30 +0100
From: Jan Lieskovsky <jlieskov@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        John Bailey <rekkanoryo@...kanoryo.org>
Subject: Re: CVE UnRequest (minor) -- Pidgin / libpurple --
 Cipher API information disclosure


Hello vendors,

Jan Lieskovsky wrote:
> 
> Hello Josh, Steve, vendors,
> 
>   the following:
>   [1] http://pidgin.im/news/security/?id=50
> 
>   Upstream patch:
>   [2] 
> http://developer.pidgin.im/viewmtn/revision/info/16f4c309528b82961b169edb8b74b9061db6c471 
> 
> 
> Doesn't seem to have a CVE identifier yet.
> 
> Could you allocate one?

John clarified in a reply to my post:

> Jan,
> 
> FYI, we didn't request one because we believed it did not meet the guidelines
> for assignment of a CVE identifier.  It's a local-only information disclosure
> and can't be remotely exploited.
> 
> John

So ignore my earlier post / request.

Thanks && Regards, Jan.
--
Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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