oss-sec: Re: CVE request for oCERT advisory 2009-013 (yTNEF/Evolution TNEF)

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

----- "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Mark J Cox wrote:
>
> > I checked and oCERT don't have a name, so use CVE-2009-3721 for this.
> This advisory covers both buffer overflows and path traversal in the same
> data field.  While these may stem from "input validation" (as many issues
> do), we would typically assign two separate CVE names, since the fix for a
> buffer overflow would not necessarily fix the path traversal (or vice
> versa).
>
> Unless there's some deeper reason for using a single CVE, I think we should
> assign separate CVEs here.  If you agree Mark, we can use CVE-2009-3721 for
> the overflow, and you could assign a new CVE for the traversal.
Let's use CVE-2009-3887 for the traversal then.

Thanks.

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    JB