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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2024021446-rosy-citation-0a80@gregkh> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 08:45:19AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 07:43:32AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 02:35:24PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 07:48:12PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > > +No CVEs will be assigned for unfixed security issues in the Linux > > > > +kernel, assignment will only happen after a fix is available as it can > > > > +be properly tracked that way by the git commit id of the original fix. > > > > > > This seems at odds with the literal definition of what CVEs are: > > > _vulnerability_ enumeration. This is used especially during the > > > coordination of fixes; how is this meant to interact with embargoed > > > vulnerability fixing? > > > > Yes, this is totally wrong, it was the original first draft of the > > document, that I did on my workstation, and then went on the road for 3+ > > weeks and I never sycned up when I got home with the updated version > > that is on my laptop. The updated version addresses this, as it was > > rightly pointed out by the CVE group that this is not how a CNA is > > supposed to only work. > > > > Yet another reason why keeping changes private is a major pain, not only > > for security ones! :( > > > > Let me send out the proper one after my morning coffee has kicked in and > > I resolve the differences, and make the grammer fixes that Randy pointed > > out... > > To make it more obvious here, as others have pointed this out to me as > well, here's the updated paragraph that will be in my v2 patch, with > proper ';' usage: > > No CVEs will be automatically assigned for unfixed security issues in > the Linux kernel; assignment will only automatically happen after a fix > is available and applied to a stable kernel tree, and it will be tracked > that way by the git commit id of the original fix. If anyone wishes to > have a CVE assigned before an issue is resolved with a commit, please > contact the kernel CVE assignment team at to get an > identifier assigned from their batch of reserved identifiers. > > Does that help explain the process better? Yeah, that's great. It get qualified with the "automatic" bit, which makes this clear now. Thanks! -Kees -- Kees Cook