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Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 18:25:06 +0100
From: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: btrfs heap overflow

On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 10:49:35AM -0500, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> I'm not aware of any distributions that support 2.6.37 kernels, but as
> far as I know this doesn't affect CVE eligibility (please correct me
> if I'm wrong).

The usual criteria for Linux kernel CVE assignments was/is if the
issue affects a released kernel, not if it's supported by someone,
i.e. if it had been introduced in 2.6.38-rc1 it would not receive
a CVE ID.

Cheers,
        Moritz

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