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Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 09:20:00 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux kernel: multiple vulnerabilities in the USB
subsystem x2
On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 05:16:03PM +0200, Andrey Konovalov wrote:
> On a side note, currently there's an issue with many Linux kernel bugs
> being fixed, but not backported to distro kernels. Those bugs might
> have security implications, but there's no way to know that, unless
> someone specifically spends time to assess them in that regard.
> Requesting CVEs for those bugs is a way to get the fixes into distro
> kernels (even though that doesn't always work promptly [1] :).
>
> [1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/10/30/2
Note, I am scraping the logs for anything that says it is fixed due do a
syzbot find or report and backporting them to the stable kernel
branches. So those distros that do follow the LTS/stable kernel
releases do get these fixes. Luckily most of the "sane" distros these
days do this.
Please don't abuse the CVE process just to try to get a fix backported
to a Linux kernel release. There is at least one company today that
does this as it is a way to "route around" management, but really, that
shouldn't be needed, fix your management processes instead please :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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