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Message-ID: <4F4D54D3.3020606@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:27:31 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: CVE Status Clarification / Request -- kadu:
 Stored XSS by parsing contact's status and sms messages in history

On 02/28/2012 12:18 PM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
>> Argh sorry cut and paste the wrong CVE # into novell's bugzilla.
>> Can we just remove it from there please?
> 
> Removing Comment 4 from 
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749036 is definitely a 
> good idea, but MITRE will also do a REJECT of the CVE-2006-7248 
> identifier to address the issue more completely.
> 
> We often see vendors of CVE compatible products and services
> picking up new CVE mappings from oss-security postings, and from
> references cited in oss-security postings, and this often happens
> on the day of the posting. Some vendors primarily just want the
> mapping, and aren't really investigating the issues or possible
> discrepancies. So, here, it's plausible that:

Yeah, speaking as someone who did that for 9.5 years (and sent you cve
dupes and errors I found =) my only comment would be people who
automatically consume CVE with no checks and balances are going to
have problems regardless (people make typos, systems do strange
things, etc.).


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

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