On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 10:20 PM Laird Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> In fairness to the original poster, some of us at certain maybe mutual large 
> corporations might be subject to their inflexible mysterious tone deaf 
> baffling legal-department-instigated restrictions and wish very strongly we 
> could change them, but we know better, so we might ask the questions we are 
> required to ask, while cringing inside, and hoping we aren’t judged too 
> harshly by those who can plainly view all the absurdities. I speak 
> hypothetically of course.

I concur, that is a fair point. I did not mean to criticize OP for
absurdities/challenges of "Big Vulnerability" + Enterprise software
business, and can relate to challenges of having to prove that certain
version is safe, despite sec-software vendor's tools claiming
otherwise.
So my annoyance is definitely with the end result where tools are
guilty until somehow proven otherwise.

-+ Tatu +-

>
> Best,
> Laird
>
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:09 PM Tatu Saloranta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 3:19 PM Penny Wells <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > We use jackson-databind 2.9.7 but cannot upgrade to 2.9.8 due to the 
>> > CVE-2018-19362.
>> > I do see a bugfix applied into github for 2.9.8 but can't be sure as the 
>> > CVE does not have this information.
>> > Can someon confirm for us that this CVE (CVE-2018-19362) is fixed in the 
>> > latest jackson-databind 2.9.8 ?
>> > thanks, Penny, Oracle Corp.
>>
>> I am bit hurt by your distrust of actual developers' information, as
>> opposed to some CVE tracker somewhere that has little idea of what
>> goes into which release :-o
>>
>> But, yes, fix to that CVE is in 2.9.8, as per official Release Notes:
>>
>> https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.9.8
>>
>> and linked to Github issue
>>
>> https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-databind/issues/2186
>>
>> which are canonical definitions of where fixes go.
>>
>> -+ Tatu +-
>>
>> ps. Pox on security scan tools and their makers who make money by
>> essential spreading FUD and misinformation.
>>
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