Re: libproxy PAC downloading buffer overflows

[Matthias Weckbecker <mweckbecker () suse de>]

On Friday 12 October 2012 15:46:47 Kurt Seifried wrote:
> On 10/12/2012 02:43 AM, Tomas Hoger wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > libproxy 0.4.9 fixes a buffer overflow reported by Tomas Mraz:
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/libproxy/source/detail?r=853
> > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/libproxy/VxZ8No7mT0E
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4504
>
> > Upstream announcement also mentions another issue - CVE-2012-4505.
> > It is related, but different problem that was found in pre-0.4
> > versions while investigating if they were affected by
> > CVE-2012-4504.
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-4505
>
> Please use CVE-2012-4521 for this issue.

Wasn't this rather a CVE notification than a CVE request? At least 
it looked like this to me. The announcement mentions two CVE.

Matthias

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