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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de>
Cc: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Identify security-related patches
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:48:07 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040902114807.G1973@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4136C6E1.4090404@bio.ifi.lmu.de>; from fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de on Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 09:08:17AM +0200

* Frank Steiner (fsteiner-mail@bio.ifi.lmu.de) wrote:
> is there an easy way to identify all security-related patches out of the
> mass of patches floating around  on linux.bkbits.net or the kernel bugzilla?

No, there's not.  It's not as simple as it seems.  Your best bet is
monitoring vendor updates, as they have the same goal.  Occasionaly
things get applied with a CVE candidate number (CAN-YYYY-NNNN), and
those are security relevant.

thanks,
-chris
-- 
Linux Security Modules     http://lsm.immunix.org     http://lsm.bkbits.net

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-02 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-02  7:08 Frank Steiner
2004-09-02 18:48 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-09-02 19:12   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-09-02 20:22 ` Florian Weimer

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