[Full-Disclosure] mnogosearch 3.1.20 and 3.2.10 buffer overflow

Steven M. Christey coley at mitre.org
Tue Jun 10 18:00:37 BST 2003


>> Vendor has been contacted on 01/06/2003 and fix is available from cvs at
>> http://www.mnogosearch.org.
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> 5 months...  This is full disclosure?

Maybe that date is really June 1, 2003, since many countries list the
month second, not first.

By the way, these DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY formats often make it
difficult to quantify how much notice a vendor really had before the
issue was published.  This has affected the accuracy of my past
aborted attempts to figure out how long vendors *really* take to fix
issues, and it may hamper any future attempts.

Using formats like YYYY/MM/DD or "Month DD, YYYY" generally seems to
address the confusion.

- Steve



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