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Message-ID: <20141105213111.GA21924@zoho.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 21:31:11 +0000
From: mancha <mancha1@...o.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: strings / libbfd crasher

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:39:09AM -0500, cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> Four of the main factors that affect libbfd CVE assignments are:
> 
>   1. existence of a "multi-session" use case
>   2. discussion of exploitability of a specific attack vector
>   3. likelihood of exploitability of classes of observed behavior
>   4. actual or expected volume of distinct discoveries
> 
> We'll try to give an example of each of these.

[SNIP]

Very interesting read. Thank you for taking the time to write it up.

--mancha

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