linux-cve-announce - ANNOUNCE: all old GSD entries are now processed

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Message-ID: <2025123055-directory-hemlock-a282@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2025 15:17:55 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Subject: ANNOUNCE: all old GSD entries are now processed

As part of the requirements for becoming a cve.org CNA, we were required
to process all of the previously-allocated GSD entries for Linux and
assign CVE ids where the issue met the rules of cve.org.  That required
manual review of over 5900 different git commits (and cross referencing
them to verify they were not already assigned to an existing CVE id.)

That work is now complete, thankfully.  So you shouldn't be seeing "huge
numbers" of old CVE ids being allocated by us anymore (i.e. that's where
the majority of the 2021-2023 CVE ids came from).

Odds are we missed a few along the way, so if anyone knows of any older
commits that should be assigned CVE ids, or if we accidentally created
duplicates (many non-kernel.org CNAs were horrible in actually
describing what git id resolved an issue), please let us know and we
will handle it.

thanks,

greg k-h

p.s. Here's the current stats of how the kernel.org CNA has been
processing ids for the first almost-two years of being in business:

 Year	Reserved	Assigned	Rejected	  A+R		Returned	Total
  2019:	    0		    2		    1		    3		   47		   50
  2020:	    0		   17		    0		   17		   33		   50
  2021:	    0		  732		   24		  756		   16		  772
  2022:	    0		 2123		   49		 2172		   17		 2189
  2023:	    0		 1618		   57		 1675		    0		 1675
  2024:	    0		 3068		   97		 3165		    6		 3171
  2025:	   73		 2421		   39		 2460		    0		 2533
 Total:	   73		 9981		  267		10248		  119		10440