|
Message-ID: <20160721202159.GA32017@eldamar.local> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2016 22:21:59 +0200 From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org> To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@...e.com>, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, pkg-shadow-devel@...ts.alioth.debian.org, CVE Assignments MITRE <cve-assign@...re.org> Subject: Re: Re: [Pkg-shadow-devel] subuid security patches for shadow package Hi, On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:48:52PM +0200, Nicolas François wrote: > Hi, > > The first point looks like a non issue to me. > > getlogin() is used to differentiate users with the same UID. > The result of getlogin() is checked: if it returns a username that do not > have the UID returned by getuid(), it will be ignored. @MITRE CVE assignment team: This is for CVE-2016-6251. See above and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1358622#c2 . Should this CVE be REJECTED? Regards, Salvatore
Powered by blists - more mailing lists
Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.
Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.