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staticassertionyesterday at 9:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

Greg and Linus do not believe in the entire concept of "vulnerabilities" in the Linux kernel and do not believe in the methods that distros use like cherry picking, therefor they typically are against issuing CVEs, scoring CVEs, describing vulnerabilities at all (if you use the word "vulnerability", your patch will be rejected), etc.

It's fundamentally their position to not work the way that you describe.


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Hendriktotoday at 10:35 AM

I would like to read more about this. Do you have a source?

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baggy_troughyesterday at 9:50 PM

That doesn't really seem to map onto the situation since Greg himself released a 6.12 with the patch earlier today.

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