oss-security - Re: CVE already assigned for 1026891?

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Message-ID: <20131220152803.GP5714@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:28:03 +0100
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: CVE already assigned for 1026891?

On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:58:17PM -0700, Vincent Danen wrote:
> 
> On Dec 18, 2013, at 12:43 PM, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> 
> > Signed PGP part
> > http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/12/18/3 raises the
> > question of whether there is a CVE assignment in
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1026891 already, in order
> > to avoid a duplicate assignment. Our guess is that security issues
> > tracked privately by Red Hat typically do have pre-assigned CVE IDs,
> > so MITRE will delay a CVE assignment indefinitely.
> > 
> > Although it would be great to know what CVE ID you have assigned,
> > replying with something like "yes, it has a CVE ID, but it's only
> > being shared with the embargo audience" would be quite useful as well.
> 
> There is a CVE assigned to this, but based on what Sebastian wrote, I can’t tell if it’s the same issue so I’m hesitant to say what the CVE is in case it does end up being different.
> 
> Sebastian, can you give me access to your bug?  Or did you intend to make it public?  I’m assuming that since you are asking about a CVE here, you maybe did not mean to keep it private?  Your other message said your bug contained upstream URLs (so maybe even pasting those here would be helpful).
> 
> Once I can look at it, I can let you know for sure whether or not it is the same issue (and should then use the same CVE).

I have moved the bug to our Security Incidents product, so it should be visible now.

Ciao, Marcus

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