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tomcat CVE confusion


From: David Walser <luigiwalser () yahoo com>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2013 11:41:07 -0700 (PDT)

OpenSuSE has issued an advisory for tomcat today:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-08/msg00014.html

This is also linked from LWN here:
http://lwn.net/Vulnerabilities/562439/

This CVE-2013-3544 is not mentioned on tomcat's security page:
http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html

But CVE-2012-3544 is mentioned there (note the different year).

Based on this Novell/OpenSuSE bug report, I believe OpenSuSE made a typo:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=831119

I can't find any info about CVE-2013-3544, but the mitre page says it's reserved.  Perhaps that CVE has already been 
allocated for some other piece of software?  If so, this might cause some confusion.  I'm not sure how this should be 
handled, but I thought it would be appropriate to point this out.

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