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

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Feb 15 2024 - 14:40:53 EST


On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 07:20:09PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> Here's an example of what the CVE announcement is going to look like for
> a "test" that we have been doing for our scripts
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024021353-drainage-unstuffed-a7c0@gregkh/T/#u
> ...
> the latest release is impossible, the individual change to resolve this
> issue can be found at:
> https://git.kernel.org/stable/linux/c/f08adf5add9a071160c68bb2a61d697f39ab0758

This is the "original fix", a v5.16 commit, which was backported to all
the stables. For this case, that seems fine (it's pretty easy to grep
the stable trees for the SHA).

In the case of a fix only being in -stable, what will be listed for
SHAs here? Each stable SHA? Something else?

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Kees Cook