#34 and #35 have returned from the dead on GitHub. I’ll take a closer look 
later this week.

Evan

> On Jan 15, 2019, at 14:12, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 10:43:25AM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Evan,
>> 
>> On 15 January 2019 at 11:18, Evan Miller wrote:
>> | 
>> | > On Jan 15, 2019, at 03:06, Moritz Muehlenhoff <j...@inutil.org> wrote:
>> | > 
>> | > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 08:45:56PM -0500, Evan Miller wrote:
>> | >> Oddly, all four issues (#34, #35, #36, #37) seem to have disappeared 
>> from GitHub. I don’t know if the original reporter intended to close them, 
>> or what.
>> | >> 
>> | >> I have an email copy of #34 but do not have access to the PoC files. So 
>> without the cooperation of the reporter (Zhao Liang, Huawei Weiran Labs) my 
>> ability to research will be limited.
>> | > 
>> | > That's really strange, do you have the mail address of Zhao, could you 
>> ask him what happened?
>> | 
>> | His address may be leon.zha...@gmail.com - I’ll try it. His GitHub profile 
>> is now a 404.
>> | 
>> | > 
>> | > MITRE doesn't archive security content per se, they only deal with the 
>> organisation and assignment
>> | > of numbers. The Internet Archive's Wayback machine also hasn't archived 
>> the Github pages.
>> | > 
>> | > Cheers,
>> | >        Moritz
>> | 
>> | 
>> | Here are the Google caches of #34 and #35:
>> | 
>> | 
>> https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:pgRHJwznP7wJ:https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/34+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
>> | 
>> | 
>> https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5GNSeHQTzEsJ:https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/issues/35+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
>> | 
>> | The PoC links are dead.
>> | 
>> | Looking at the backtraces and the commit fixing #36 and #37 
>> (https://github.com/evanmiller/libxls/commit/24044ad7d7cec8a6a1c2370caad27890121a776e)
>>  it is my belief that issues #34 and #35 are NOT fixed.
>> | 
>> | I’ll look into them soon.
>> 
>> You're awesome!  Much appreciated.
>> 
>> Moritz: Do you expect the CVE to puliverize too, or will it remain active and
>> open, but "simply" without any hard (public) evidence backing it?
> 
> No, they stick around, it sometimes happens that references vanish, e.g. then 
> hosting sites
> go down (think of berlios or similar)
> 
> Cheers,
>        Moritz

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