linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 15:38:52 +0100 (CET)
From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc: corbet@....net, workflows@...r.kernel.org, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, 
    linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org, 
    Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, 
    Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE
 process

On Wed, 14 Feb 2024, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:

> The people that make up the current team, Lee, Sasha, and I, have a LONG
> history of fixing and triaging and managing security bugs for the
> kernel, in the community and in corporate environments.  We know how to
> do this as we have been doing it for decades already.  

Thanks for clarifying. Maybe the wording could use some more verbosity 
then; one of my potential readings of it was "everything that gets picked 
for -stable will get a CVE assigned".

> If you or anyone else wishes to help us out with this classification, we 
> can gladly use the help.

Thanks, but no, thanks, I want to stay away from the CVE tragedy as far as 
possible :)

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs