Re: security-tracker: A proposal to significantly reduce reported false-positives (no affected-code shipped)

Gian Piero Carrubba <[email protected]> Wed, 3 Apr 2024 18:03:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.security
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* [Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 09:21:41AM +0100] Samuel Henrique:
># Alternative solutions:
>If we really want to distinguish the case when we don't produce any affected
>packages but the source contains the vulnerability (a build with different
>flags might result in an affected package), we can create a new tag to show
>this: not-affected-build-artifacts.

This. Just marking the CVE as not-affected does not distinguish between 
deb and deb-src, that are still part of (and shipped by) Debian.

Cheers,
Gian Piero.