Gentoo Archives: gentoo-security

From: Samuel Damashek <samuel.damashek@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-security@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-security] Kernel Vulnerability Handling and Classification Criteria
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2014 02:29:20
Message-Id: 52CCB7E4.3080204@gmail.com
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4 Max,
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6 > Hello Samuel, are security vulnerabilities not classified by
7 > cve.mitre.org in a way that can be simply and consistently
8 > leveraged? I wouldn't expect gentoo to implement kernel patches
9 > before the Linux kernel maintainers blessed the patch, and I'd
10 > imagine that a cve number would have been assigned by then, our am
11 > I mistaken?
12 Yes, CVE's are assigned to kernel vulnerabilities, and I'm thinking
13 that in general, these criteria would be applied after they are
14 assigned a CVE (although that's not a requirement of course). We have
15 our own criteria for Portage packages because it can take time before
16 the issues are classified by MITRE, and the classifications aren't
17 Gentoo specific (correct me if I'm wrong here).
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20 Samuel
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