Re: SecNiche : Microsoft Internet Explorer Pop up Blocker Bypassing and Dos Vulnerability

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Pranay Kanwar wrote:

> Frankly i now feel, that its not SecNiche's fault entirely, it has got a
> lot of encouragement from its past invalid and absurd claims.
>
> Such as
>
> _JWIG Context Dependent Template Calling Denial of Service Vulnerability._
> http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-3816
> http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24974
> http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35515

I characterized this as a design limitation that could become an issue in
applications that are written using JWIG, not JWIG itself:

  http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2007/Jul/0580.html

Yet nobody followed up on this to dispute my assessment or agree with it.
What is your opinion?


> Also i am pretty sure the above links will stay forever and i don't suppose i
> have to explain why.

The CVEs will remain as a record of a report that was heavily disputed;
unlike other vuln DBs, CVE and OSVDB don't just erase records when an
issue is disputed.  We want a provable resolution to such disputes, if one
ever arises.

- Steve

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