On 2023/09/08 19:57, Ross Burton via lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> On 6 Sep 2023, at 13:30, Ross Burton via lists.openembedded.org 
> <ross.burton=arm....@lists.openembedded.org> wrote:
>>>> On 5 Sep 2023, at 08:29, Yuta Hayama <hay...@lineo.co.jp> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> affected_versions in kernel_cves.json does not mean "first affected 
>>>>> version
>>>>> to last affected version" but actually "first affected version to fixed
>>>>> version". Therefore, the variable names, conditional expressions, and
>>>>> CVE_STATUS descriptions should be fixed.
>>>>
>>>> I’m happy to believe you on this, but do you have a source?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, I have not found any official explanation for this. All I 
>>> know
>>> is what I wrote in the following message. And that is what I have been able 
>>> to
>>> confirm empirically.
>>>
>>> https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/186994
>>
>> Based on that evidence you appear to be right, yes.  I’ve just mailed the 
>> maintainer of the JSON to see if he’d like to make a statement either way.
> 
> I got a reply:
> 
> "The code takes the breaking_cmt to fixing_cmt. So it would be First Affected 
> version to First Fixed version in the mainline.”
> 
> Yes, you’re correct.

Thank you, Ross.
I am relieved to hear that I was not mistaken.

Also, thank you to the maintainers for applying the patch to the master.


Yuta Hayama
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