[openstack-dev] Essex patch for CVE-2013-0270

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Thu Feb 14 16:05:02 UTC 2013


Thomas Goirand wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 12:11 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
>> Dolph Mathews wrote:
>>> Dan Prince also wrote a more specific fix for the same issue and
>>> backported it to essex here:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1098307
>>
>> Indeed, we didn't backport the size-limiting middleware because we don't
>> backport new features as part of security vulnerability fixes (following
>> what distributions security teams accept).
>>
>> As mentioned in the advisory, the fix for CVE-2013-0270 in Essex is here:
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/21216/
>>
> 
> I'm quite confused now.
> 
> We have CVE-2013-0247 and CVE-2013-0270. Aren't these the same problem?
> Patches are conflicting and are doing approximately the same in
> different ways. What am I missing?

I suspect CVE-2013-0270 is a duplicate CVE assignment for CVE-2013-0247,
which is the one we issued OSSA-2013-003 for.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack



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