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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 21:54:05 +1300
From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@...enet.co.nz>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com,
Matthew Fernandez <matthew.fernandez@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Numerous unconfirmed FOSS CVEs disclosed on FD
mailing list
On 27/01/24 12:03, Matthew Fernandez wrote:
> On 1/27/24 08:53, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> While I can't speak for all the projects involved, I can speak for the
>> X.Org maintainers & security team, and I can say that we were not
>> consulted or informed about this CVE filing - if I wasn't on the FD
>> mailing list, I wouldn't even know it had happened. The CNA responsible
>> has not yet published the CVE to the CVE database yet, so we can't yet
>> file a dispute, but once they do, I plan to request that they withdraw
>> CVE-2023-45916 for xedit, as there is no security boundary crossed here
>> and the bug doesn't allow someone to do anything they otherwise couldn't.
>
> We (the Graphviz maintainers) were also not consulted/informed. Though
> we do not plan to contest the CVE.
Please *DO* contest CVE issued for non-security bugs. It helps
discourage this kind of bad behaviour if their CVEs get removed. May
also help CNA to identify repeat offenders for closer inspection of reports.
HTH
AYJ
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