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Exactly, I followed the CVE link through, and all affected RHEL8/9.

Soo…… Red Hat isn’t patching their live, currently supported distributions? That seems bigger news than their approach to CentOS, which they are clearly trying to kill.

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CVE-2023-0590 is already patched in C9, meaning the fix will likely will be shipped in RHEL 9.2. The other CVEs will probably get fixed as well (in CentOS first!), but when the RHEL maintainers are ready to, not based on some arbitrary deadline from a third party. Lower severity CVE fixes are routinely delayed until future minor versions, so this is nothing new, just an example of a security researcher not understanding how RHEL works.

You're obviously a Red Hat employee. It might be worth disclosing it.

I don't quite agree though. Sure, RH can decide when to patch, but a researcher isn't wrong just because they say "Hey, RHEL isn't patched".

Should RHEL be patching sooner? Maybe. Though I get patches can have unintended consequences. However, I like the idea of a third part scrutinizing this stuff. Otherwise companies will do the wrong thing and claim their security posture is perfect.

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