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List:       oss-security
Subject:    Re: [oss-security] CVE-2021-20177 kernel: iptables string match rule could result in kernel panic
From:       Greg KH <greg () kroah ! com>
Date:       2021-01-12 16:09:42
Message-ID: X/3JxrqAuE7mDlpZ () kroah ! com
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 03:23:16PM +0000, John Haxby wrote:
> 
> 
> > On 12 Jan 2021, at 08:04, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > 
> > I still do not understand why you report issues that are fixed over a
> > year ago (October 2019) and assign them a CVE like this.  Who does this
> > help out?  And what about the thousands of other issues that are fixed
> > in the kernel and not assigned a CVE like this, are they somehow not as
> > important to your group?
> > 
> > What determines what you want to give a CVE to and what you do not?
> 
> 
> I think I can answer that.   There's nothing technical going on here,
> it's down to the behaviour of the end users of enterprise systems.

Ok, I can understand that crazyness, and somehow believe it, so I have
not complained when announcements like this come out for issues that
affect RHEL releases as RH is known for abusing^using the CVE system in
this manner.  But that was not the case here at all, which is why I
asked this.

thanks,

greg k-h
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