Re: [RESEARCH] Patch delivery delay

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Geißler
I am currently analyzing the delay between vulnerability disclosure (CVE release) and the release of a corresponding patch. Firstly, i noticed that some vulnerabilities are patched before the CVE was assigned. How is that possible? Was the vulnerability "accitendally" fixed? (Example: According

[RESEARCH] Patch delivery delay

2015-09-14 Thread Stefan Geißler
Hello all, I am currently analyzing the delay between vulnerability disclosure (CVE release) and the release of a corresponding patch. Firstly, i noticed that some vulnerabilities are patched before the CVE was assigned. How is that possible? Was the vulnerability "accitendally" fixed?

[Research] Number of lines of code

2015-09-06 Thread Stefan Geißler
Hi all, Is there reliable information about the number of lines of code in the kvm code base? I already counted virt/kvm from the git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm.git repository. But ~7000 LOC seems too little to me. Or is that correct? Thank you in advance! -- To unsubscribe

KVM: Security Policy

2015-08-27 Thread Stefan Geißler
at the right place. Kind regards and thank you in advance, Stefan Geißler -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe kvm in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html