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Message-ID: <20121104193929.15ed637c.reed@reedloden.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 19:39:29 -0800
From: Reed Loden <reed@...dloden.com>
To: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Steven Christey <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: YUI 2.x security issue regarding embedded SWF
 files -- or, How Not To Handle A Security Disclosure

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On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 17:13:28 -0700
Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com> wrote:

> > Might want to go ahead and get a CVE assigned to whatever this
> > issue is, and hope more details come out of this soon so YUI 2
> > users can actually get patched instead of having to request access
> > to the fix...
> 
> Have any CVE's been issued for this issue? I can't find any. More to
> the point does this kind of issue (is it a service strictly?) even get
> a CVE? Steve?

YUI is not a service at all. It's a JavaScript helper library, similar
to jQuery, Mootools, Dojo, etc. CVEs have been assigned to YUI before
(CVE-2010-4207, CVE-2010-4710).

~reed
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