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Re: using vulnerability ids in patches

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On Thu, 2017-09-07 at 11:38 +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote:
> 
> Ok. So doing this I see a number of instances where the CVE-ID is 
> mentioned in the commit message, but there are also instances that
> use  the 'Fixes:' tag. Does it make sense to use that or does it
> serve another purpose?

Huh, I don't think that makes sense - the Fixes: tag should be for the
commit that introduced the bug. I guess parsers will have to ignore
garbage so it's probably safe, but I don't think you could mine for CVE
fixes that way anyway ...

johannes



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