> they don't believe that vulnerabilities conceptually make sense
That's exactly what I wrote: "they have a strong belief that all kernel bugs are vulnerabilities and all vulnerabilities are just bugs; sometimes taken to the extreme in both ways".
But there is also a question of bandwidth. If a maintainer asks to bring a specific vulnerability to distros-list, the kernel security people will be reasonable. I did it last March.
> Nope, sorry, we are NOT allowed to notify anyone about anything "ahead
of time" otherwise we will have to tell everyone about everything.
That's the only policy by which all the legal/governmental agencies
have agreed to allow us to operate in, so we are stuck with it.
That's exactly what I wrote: "they have a strong belief that all kernel bugs are vulnerabilities and all vulnerabilities are just bugs; sometimes taken to the extreme in both ways".
But there is also a question of bandwidth. If a maintainer asks to bring a specific vulnerability to distros-list, the kernel security people will be reasonable. I did it last March.