Remotely triggerable crash

[John Bailey]

On 09/17/2010 06:29 PM, John Bailey wrote:
> On 09/17/2010 06:18 PM, Daniel Atallah wrote:
>> Do we need a CVE for this?
> 
> Since we know the Yahoo issue, at least, is a definite remote crasher, yes, we
> do.  Since all the potential remote issues share the same root cause, we can
> request a single blanket CVE, something along the lines of "Insufficient return
> value checking leads to remotely triggerable denial of service" that indicates
> the same problem exists in multiple locations.
> 
> John

Can we get this process jump-started so we can get a release pushed?  We have a
good number of bug fixes ready for this release that I'd like to see get pushed
out soon.  Maybe shoot for an October 7 or 8 release?

John

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