Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > My observation is that the old system has had pretty low-quality > CVE's, and worse, overly inflated CVE Severity Scores, which has > forced all people who are supporting distro and cloud serves which > sell into the US Government market to have to do ve

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-16 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Feb 16, 2024 at 09:27:48PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > Now that you have played the distro card (thanks!) here, let me just copy > my comment from LWN where someone suggested "well, it's easy, it's the job > of the [paid] distros to do the triage" ... > > The problem is, that with thi

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-16 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Fri, 16 Feb 2024, Josh Poimboeuf wrote: > - Not users of -stable since they already know they need to be on the > latest version. > > - Not distros or their users as it's just flooding them with low quality > CVEs which have no analysis or scoring. > > And enterprise distros will never be

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-16 Thread Josh Poimboeuf
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 01:10:55PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > +Note, due to the layer at which the Linux kernel is in a system, almost > +any bug might be exploitable to compromise the security of the kernel, > +but the possibility of exploitation is often not evident when the bug is > +fix

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-16 Thread Jürgen Groß
On 15.02.24 18:49, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 04:03:02PM +0100, Jürgen Groß wrote: On 15.02.24 13:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a CVE

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-15 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 06:38:05PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed > > issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a > > CVE if one is not automatically a

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-15 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 04:03:02PM +0100, Jürgen Groß wrote: > On 15.02.24 13:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed > > issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a > > CVE if one is not automatically assign

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-15 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed > issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a > CVE if one is not automatically assigned for their fixes. There is still one thing that's not clear to

Re: [PATCH v4] Documentation: Document the Linux Kernel CVE process

2024-02-15 Thread Jürgen Groß
On 15.02.24 13:10, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: The Linux kernel project now has the ability to assign CVEs to fixed issues, so document the process and how individual developers can get a CVE if one is not automatically assigned for their fixes. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Reviewed-by: Konstantin Ryab