Re: responding to CVEs

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On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 13:35:10 +0000, you wrote:

>Is there any specific requirement to change packages in response to
>CVEs, specifically if they appear to be bogus?  I can't find anything
>specifying that.
>
>I ask because three CVEs have triggered automated bug reports against
>libxsmm <https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/libxsmm/bugs>.  I don't
>understand why the CVEs were issued, since a problem with unrealistic
>input to a (rather rarely used) development tool doesn't strike me as a
>security problem.
>
>On that basis I didn't bother including the upstream patch with the
>latest version, and I'm inclined to close the issues as wontfix.  Would
>that be appropriate?

I'm confused, if upstream has fixed the issue why wouldn't you apply
the fix?
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