Re: CVE Requests

[Solar Designer <solar () openwall com>]

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:20:37AM -0400, Mark Stanislav wrote:
> None of the details of these issues have been publicly discussed or released as I am trying (without much success) to 
> allocate a CVE prior to sending out a coordinated advisory including that identifier as I always have done and as the 
> mitre site indicates to do.
>
> There are no reference links to provide and I am not publicizing details on this list before the developer can be 
> informed of the CVE.
>
> I'm happy to take this off list as I am sure no one cares about any of this discussion

No, please keep this on the list.  Discussions on how to handle
vulnerability disclosure (including the CVE ID assignment step) are
definitely on topic for oss-security.

Thanks,

Alexander
(a moderator for oss-security)