This hasn't been the case for a number of years, Mitre has seriously picked up their game, and you can talk to linux vendors such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and SuSE wh

This hasn't been the case for a number of years, Mitre has seriously picked up their game, and you can talk to linux vendors such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and SuSE who also have blocks of CVE's assigned for things they shipped. The alternative is DWF, which would be more popular if this was a more common problem.