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Linux kernel security work

Greg Kroah-Hartman · 2 Jan 2026

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  1. This arrangement has allowed the kernel security team to remain independent and continue to operate across the different governments that the members operate in, and it looks to become the normal way project security teams work with the advent of the European Union's new CRA law coming into affect which places requirements on response time of companies that receive notice of potential security issues in their projects.
  2. As history has shown us with Spectre and Meltdown, this "no embargo" policy does not always work well when working with problems that cross operating systems and hardware platforms, possibly requiring firmware or microcode updates.

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