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

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-02-14T15:09:41Z

On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 03:38:52PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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".

CVE has a very specific definition already, as per cve.org:

CVE Record is the descriptive data about a vulnerability
associated with a CVE ID, provided by a CVE Numbering Authority
(CNA). This data is provided in multiple human and
machine-readable formats.

And they define "vulnerability" as:

An instance of one or more weaknesses in a Product that can be
exploited, causing a negative impact to confidentiality,
integrity, or availability; a set of conditions or behaviors
that allows the violation of an explicit or implicit security
policy.

and as a CNA we must follow that definition. No need to restate the CVE
rules in our own document, I am sure that if we don't follow them, lots
of people will be quick to point it out and we will revoke those ids
that we mess up on.

thanks,

greg k-h