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inigyoutoday at 12:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

What do you mean? It isn't a DoS to assign every single bug fix a CVE! Every single bug is making someone vulnerable in some way.


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insanitybittoday at 1:53 PM

That's nonsense. The goal is and always has been to undermine the CVE system because Greg does not believe in the system. The kernel is the only project that marks CVEs to fixes, it's the only project that considers every bug to be a "Security" bug, and it has a multi-decades long history of telling the security world to fuck off - all consistent with what I've said.

No one else has the process that the kernel has, despite plenty of people having software that's deployed in very similar ways.

There's zero question - this is ideologically motivated, not a genuine good-faith attempt to leverage the system.

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worthless-trashtoday at 12:54 PM

> What do you mean?

No analysis is being done in the linux kernel to assess vulnerability.

> It isn't a DoS to assign every single bug fix a CVE!

On people who care about this, it is, not in the project itself though.

> Every single bug is making someone vulnerable in some way.

Not every bug is making someone vulnerable. (docs bugs, test bugs) behavioral changes, performance improvements, the list goes on.