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Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: 2015 kernel CVEs

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On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:51:54AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:00:57PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
> > > On 01/19/2016 03:28 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > >> I like to look back over old CVEs to see how we could do better.  Here
> > >> is the list from 2015.  I got most of this information from the Ubuntu
> > >> CVE tracker.  Thanks Ubuntu!.  If it doesn't have a hash that means it
> > >> might not be fixed yet.
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > >> CVE-2015-4170 cf872776fc84: tty: hang in tty
> > >
> > > Makes no sense that this was assigned a CVE.
> > > I fixed this _2 yrs before_ it was reported and the patch was CC'd stable.
> > 
> > I'm guessing the CVE was assigned because there are distributions that
> > ship based on kernels earlier than 3.13.  Those distributors need to
> > verify if they have the fix, etc.
> 
> Yes, that's what happened here, Red Hat asked for it from what I
> remember.  I complained loudly on the oss-security list about it, but oh
> well...

The question for CVE assignment is more if this bug existed in shipped kernel releases, not
when it was fixed in relation to assignment.

Ciao, Marcus

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2015 kernel CVEs Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> - 2016-01-19 14:40 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 16:00 +0100
  Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 17:40 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-01-19 19:00 +0100
      Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 18:10 +0100
        Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2016-01-20 19:10 +0100
          Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org> - 2016-01-21 17:10 +0100
          Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-21 19:50 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> - 2016-01-19 18:00 +0100
    Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> - 2016-01-19 18:10 +0100
      Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-01-19 19:00 +0100
        Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> - 2016-01-20 08:20 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> - 2016-01-19 19:10 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] Re: 2015 kernel CVEs ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-01-20 00:00 +0100
  Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2016-01-20 00:00 +0100
    Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> - 2016-01-20 21:20 +0100
      Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> - 2016-01-20 22:30 +0100
  Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> - 2016-01-20 00:40 +0100
  Re: 2015 kernel CVEs Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> - 2016-01-20 11:00 +0100

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