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Re: CVE-2009-0161 dupe of CVE-2009-0642

From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 14:14:40 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 26 May 2009, Nico Golde wrote:

This is not the first time Apple products receive their own CVE id for
issues in the underlying oss product (e.g. webkit very often). Is that
on purpose or is that just because Apple is lacking to provide the
proper information to notice that?


It's not intentional CVE-wise, although as you've noticed, it does happen.
I'll work on improving this situation.

- Steve

Current thread:

CVE-2009-0161 dupe of CVE-2009-0642 Nico Golde (May 25)
- Re: CVE-2009-0161 dupe of CVE-2009-0642 Steven M. Christey (May 26)