On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 05:00:15PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 06:08:00AM +0200, Willy Tarreau wrote: > > The security team does not assign CVEs, nor do we require them for > > reports or fixes, as this can needlessly complicate the process and may > > delay the bug handling. If a reporter wishes to have a CVE identifier > > assigned, they should find one by themselves, for example by contacting > > MITRE directly. However under no circumstances will a patch inclusion > > be delayed to wait for a CVE identifier to arrive. > > > > This puts the responsibility for finding one in time on the reporter > > depending on what they expect, and if they want it in the commit > > message, they'd rather have one before reporting the problem. > > Oh, nice wording, let me steal that! :) Yeah, this is good. The last sentence is a little hard to parse, so how about this, with a little more rationale expansion: However under no circumstances will patch publication be delayed for CVE identifier assignment. Getting fixes landed takes precedence; the CVE database entry will already reference the commit, so there is no loss of information if the CVE is assigned later. -Kees -- Kees Cook
