Add README to explain this repo.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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+Repo for tracking and maintaining the CVE identifiers reserved and assigned to
+the Linux kernel project.
+
+For any questions about the CVE process that Linux follows, please see the
+file, cve.rst in the kernel Documentation tree.
+
+To get announcements of all assigned CVEs, please subscribe to the
+linux-announce-cve mailing list on vger.kernel.org, or see the web archive
+here:
+	https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/
+
+Note, in the future, this repo might also track other security identifiers, as
+they are created / mandated by different government agencies.