Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:48:07 -0700 | From | Chris Wright <> | Subject | Re: Identify security-related patches |
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* 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.
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