Re: stable-security kernel updates

[Willy Tarreau]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 01:14:13AM +0200, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 16:33 +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 10:27:46AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > > 
> > > This means that missing CVE fixes are quite common with stable
> > > trees?
> > Until someone reports they are missing :-)
> 
> Or they are unfixed upstream (there are a good few of those).
> 
> Debian has a public list of all unembargoed kernel security issues that
> have CVEs (and a few that don't), with references to any upstream
> commits and fixed stable versions - but only for the stable branches
> that our stable releases follow.
> 
> The mapping of CVE IDs to commits may be useful to other stable
> maintainers, even if the rest isn't.
> 
> svn co svn://scm.alioth.debian.org/svn/kernel-sec/

Thanks for sharing this Ben, it can indeed be helpful sometimes and it's
well organized!

Willy