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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 21:07:37 +0200
From: Agostino Sarubbo <ago@...too.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Linux kernel CVEs not mentioned on oss-security

On martedì 26 settembre 2017 20:18:38 CEST Kurt Seifried wrote:
> You can check the CVE Database? There is the official MITRE one:
> cve.mitre.org and the DWF for Open Source (and yes, I lag in submissions to
> MITRE) at https://github.com/distributedweaknessfiling/DWF-CVE-Database/ in
> both cases the CVEs will have reference link(s) that ideally point to the
> upstream making it easy to match up.

As pointed out in the past (maybe spender?) the real issue is when there is a 
silent fix of a vulnerability where the commit message does not clearly state 
about the security implication. Afaik it happens frequently.

-- 
Agostino Sarubbo
Gentoo Linux Developer

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