[Secure-testing-team] Proposal: new tags

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Fri Sep 16 18:44:17 UTC 2005


* Moritz Muehlenhoff:

> I don't think this is needed. We can turn cases like these into
> REJECTED entries through our Mitre contact. Florian, did you find
> many cases like this?

See my message to Joey.  I mainly want to do this to have a clean
resolution for each CVE entry (explicit package list, or a reason why
there isn't one).

> Besides, I think the main issue in this specific case is that it's not a
> vulnerability. So simply add it to not-affected as well and consider it an
> issue only for distributions that ship mcedit suid (i.e. none).

I think such bugs, if reproducible, are still security issues.  Maybe
nobody uses mcedit as a pager or from mutt, but users have a
reasonable expectation that opening a file in an ordinary text editor
does not automatically execute code contained in that file.




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