Why “cves” is being discussed
The most recent Hacker News stories and comments contributing to this topic's mentions.
Every bugfix is assigned a CVE. "the CVE assignment team is overly cautious and assign CVE numbers to any bugfix that they identify. This explains the seemingly large number of…
by Iknowsheknows · Oct 2, 2026
His presentation style may be no-nonsense, but the content is brimming with nonsense. I would like to hear Greg Kroah-Hartman explain how the Mythos output was 'only 10 real bug…
by stonogo · Oct 2, 2026
At 3m19s Greg KH revealed what Mythos did in "revealing" 79 CVEs - pure pattern matching the previous decades of kernel developer's patches, and applying those mechanisms elsewh…
by devy · Oct 2, 2026
What a great excerpt; thank you! It reminds me of what I find when I look at CVEs handed out by scanners at places I've worked for actual impact to systems I've owned... there a…
by gregw2 · Oct 2, 2026
Many of these are months old, why are they being announced as if they were brand new? I mean honestly, CVE-2026-23137 doesn't affect kernels after January (6.18.6 and beyond), s…
by Magicrafter13 · Oct 2, 2026
"SEVERAL"? There are 1,000,000 CVEs in that one security update. In FreeBSD we only get a couple relatively minor ones every few months. Maybe Linux uses "several" as a poetical…
by freebsd_lovefes · Oct 2, 2026
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