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Message-ID: <4F4BBAA0.3000001@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:17:20 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE request: openssl: null pointer dereference
 issue

On 02/27/2012 07:42 AM, Matthias Weckbecker wrote:
> Hi Kurt, Steve, vendors,
> 
> bad S/MIME messages with crafted MIME headers can result in a NULL pointer 
> dereference in openssl's ans1 parser,
> 
>  https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=748738
>  http://www.mail-archive.com/openssl-dev@openssl.org/msg30305.html
>  http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=22144
> 
> Does it qualify for a CVE?
> 
> Thanks, Matthias

Ok did some more research and here's what we got:

First mention of this bug is in 2006:

http://marc.info/?l=openssl-dev&m=115685408414194&w=2

So please use CVE-2006-7248 for this issue.

-- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)

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