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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] (maybe) CVE request: libvpx before 1.0 crasher
From:       Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat ! com>
Date:       2012-01-30 5:32:15
Message-ID: 4F262B5F.4070100 () redhat ! com
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On 01/28/2012 06:39 AM, Hanno Böck wrote:
> libvpx (webm library) has released a new version that fixes a
> crasher bug: 
> http://blog.webmproject.org/2012/01/vp8-codec-sdk-duclair-released.html
>
>  I'm not 100% sure if and in what situation crash bugs qualify as 
> security issues.
> 
> However, I tend to think that this one does. libvpx is used in
> browsers and crashing browsers seems an issue to me. Also, it could
> be used to crash automatic media re-encoding-services (e.g.
> backends of video websites like youtube).
> 
> So I'd request a CVE.
> 

Yeah generally speaking crashes in file parsers used by other
applications (especially web browsers =) are generally a problem (I'd
be pretty annoyed to lose 40 tabs all at once).

Please use CVE-2012-0823 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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