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by mmc 836 days ago
> There are other ways to lessen the CVE workload.

> 1. Disable unused components with defconf or make menuconfig.

+1 for avoiding vulnerabilities, but were you saying this lessens the CVE evaluation workload? I'd love to hear about automation for evaluating CVEs based on a kernel config. I've done a fair amount of that manually and I'm not aware of any metadata in the CVE records (or in the CVE json in gregkh's new vulns repo) that includes config metadata.