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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-02-12 19:58:43 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-02-12 19:58:43 +0100
commit5670bf4486882cbd2a4a8d06d1541bbe0c5e01c3 (patch)
tree40c4d09afd62db37a4f84c032cf9e002fac48457
parent3332363069be9b425ed85e0990e3e785de382bc7 (diff)
downloadvulns-5670bf4486882cbd2a4a8d06d1541bbe0c5e01c3.tar.gz
bippy: mbox cleanups and rewording
Also message can be properly signed by git send-email now. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/bippy22
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/bippy b/scripts/bippy
index 0e8e3772..7c3ac842 100755
--- a/scripts/bippy
+++ b/scripts/bippy
@@ -628,6 +628,8 @@ fi # end json creation
#########################
if [[ "${MBOX_FILE}" != "" ]] ; then
cat << EOF > "${MBOX_FILE}"
+From 25bdc8c4ca5caa00d7a85492ac9c76688a44c8e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org>
Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>
Subject: ${CVE_NUMBER}: ${subject}
@@ -640,15 +642,9 @@ ${commit_text}
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned ${CVE_NUMBER} to this issue.
-Mitigation
-==========
-
-The individual change to resolve this issue can be found at:
- ${URL}
-
-
Affected versions
=================
+
EOF
for line in "${vuln_array_mbox[@]}"; do
echo " ${line}" >> ${MBOX_FILE}
@@ -657,13 +653,17 @@ EOF
cat << EOF >> "${MBOX_FILE}"
-Recomendation
-=============
+Mitigation
+==========
+
The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes. Individual
-changes are not tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
+changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release. Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
-supported by the Linux kernel community at all.
+supported by the Linux kernel community at all. If however, updating to
+the latest release is impossible, the individual change to resolve this
+issue can be found at:
+ ${URL}
EOF
dbg "mbox file written to ${MBOX_FILE}"