Re: CVE request: oping allows the disclosure of arbitrary file contents

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Josh Bressers wrote:

> ----- "Julien Tinnes" <julien.tinnes () gmail com> wrote:

> I took a look in the oping source. Without another security flaw, this
> is just a bug, oping doesn't do anything while still root that could be
> an issue. I agree that it should be fixed, it is a serious bug, but an
> attacker cannot do anything nefarious with this flaw.

I agree with Josh, this would argue for *not* assigning a CVE, even though
it's a serious bug.

- Steve