From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758042AbcASW4l (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:56:41 -0500 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:34611 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757914AbcASW4e (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:56:34 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Dan Carpenter Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com References: <20160119112812.GA10818@mwanda> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:47:32 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20160119112812.GA10818@mwanda> (Dan Carpenter's message of "Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:28:12 +0300") Message-ID: <87ziw14263.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1+MdxsB4OidzfrsynL3l0qSR8lokgLic4k= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 97.121.81.63 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com X-Spam-Report: * -1.0 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP * 0.0 TVD_RCVD_IP Message was received from an IP address * 0.0 T_TM2_M_HEADER_IN_MSG BODY: No description available. * 0.8 BAYES_50 BODY: Bayes spam probability is 40 to 60% * [score: 0.4862] * -0.0 DCC_CHECK_NEGATIVE Not listed in DCC * [sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1] X-Spam-DCC: XMission; sa06 1397; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Combo: ;Dan Carpenter X-Spam-Relay-Country: X-Spam-Timing: total 325 ms - load_scoreonly_sql: 0.03 (0.0%), signal_user_changed: 3.8 (1.2%), b_tie_ro: 2.8 (0.9%), parse: 0.83 (0.3%), extract_message_metadata: 12 (3.7%), get_uri_detail_list: 1.01 (0.3%), tests_pri_-1000: 4.4 (1.4%), tests_pri_-950: 1.17 (0.4%), tests_pri_-900: 0.97 (0.3%), tests_pri_-400: 15 (4.5%), check_bayes: 14 (4.2%), b_tokenize: 3.6 (1.1%), b_tok_get_all: 4.2 (1.3%), b_comp_prob: 1.44 (0.4%), b_tok_touch_all: 2.4 (0.7%), b_finish: 0.65 (0.2%), tests_pri_0: 102 (31.4%), check_dkim_signature: 0.44 (0.1%), check_dkim_adsp: 3.2 (1.0%), tests_pri_500: 182 (56.0%), poll_dns_idle: 177 (54.3%), rewrite_mail: 0.00 (0.0%) Subject: Re: [kernel-hardening] 2015 kernel CVEs X-Spam-Flag: No X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:00:52 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in01.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dan Carpenter writes: > I like to look back over old CVEs to see how we could do better. Here > is the list from 2015. I got most of this information from the Ubuntu > CVE tracker. Thanks Ubuntu!. If it doesn't have a hash that means it > might not be fixed yet. > > CVE-2015-8709 : ptrace: race in user namespaces let's users trace root processes As this isn't a kernel bug, and is not a race, and no one has even bothered to see if any userspace processes are this stupid I don't even think that qualifies as a CVE. There is room for improvement in this area but I don't see how this qualifies as a CVE. So for doing better I recommend a little more vetting and paying attention before assigning CVEs. Eric