CVEs for experimental (rust) code ?
CVEs for experimental (rust) code ?
Posted Dec 25, 2025 7:57 UTC (Thu) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)In reply to: CVEs for experimental (rust) code ? by moltonel
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment
> Would a CVE filed against an experimental feature get rejected ?
No.
> Is the CVE assignment process systematic/exhaustive enough to catch all bug fixes ?
We hope so, if we miss any, please let the developers at cve@k.o know.
> Is the main reason we have so few CVEs for the rust experiment that experimental code is intentionally excluded ?
No.
And as always, people can just _ask_ the kernel cve maintainers stuff like this if they are curious :)
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