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Message-ID: <CAOSRhRNqCGvtx=z57gZ5q_GkgkjEc3SsyRjV3209ioE2zQFp0g@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 07:14:26 -0400
From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>, "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request for Calibre
> Oh, and I suppose there's a very obvious but critical #6:
>
> 6. An unprivileged user an mount/unmount/eject whatever he wants, with
> root permissions. Danger.
>
> This may help to "confirm":
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/calibre/+bug/885027/
>
>
> As well, the maintainer has already issued a fix. From the bug report:
> "Fixed in branch lp:calibre. The fix will be in the next release.
> calibre is usually released every Friday.", which means the above
> source link, that went to the trunk, now shows the fixed result. The
> old broken code is still available here:
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kovid/calibre/trunk/view/9675/src/calibre/devices/linux_mount_helper.c
>
> Note that the maintainer has chosen only to address #5.
>
I'd recommend holding off on the CVE assignments for now, since these
issues are currently in progress and the final tally of issues isn't
complete.
-Dan
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