oss-security - Re: CVE-request: Joomla core information disclosure 1.7.1

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Message-ID: <4F5101A5.8050706@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:21:41 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Henri Salo <henri@...v.fi>
Subject: Re: CVE-request: Joomla core information disclosure
 1.7.1


> Huh?
> 
> http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/371-20111002-core-information-disclosure.html
> 
> and
> 
> http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/371-20111002-core-information-disclosure.html

Sorry that second one should have been:

http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/370-20111001-core-information-disclosure.html

> are entirely different issues (one is "Weak encryption causes potential
> information disclosure" the other is "Inadequate error checking causes
> potential information disclosure."), so two issues, two CVE's. We split
> based on (among other things) the underlying issues, not the outcome.
> 
> These two CVE's are fine.
> 


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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)

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