diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
index cfee028e5b..fcef6a14fb 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/cve-extra-exclusions.inc
@@ -53,24 +53,17 @@ CVE-2016-0689 CVE-2016-0692 CVE-2016-0694 CVE-2016-3418 CVE-2020-2981"
 CVE_STATUS_DB[status] = "upstream-wontfix: Since Oracle relicensed bdb, the open source community is slowly but surely \
 replacing bdb with supported and open source friendly alternatives. As a result this CVE is unlikely to ever be fixed."
 
-#
-# Kernel CVEs, e.g. linux-yocto*
+# Kernel CVEs that are generic but can't be added to the kernel's hand-maintained cve-exclusion.inc
+# or machine-maintained cve-exclusion_VERSION.inc files, such as issues that describe TCP/IP design
+# flaws or processor-specific exploits that can't be mitigated.
 #
 # For OE-Core our policy is to stay as close to the kernel stable releases as we can. This should
 # ensure the bulk of the major kernel CVEs are fixed and we don't dive into each individual issue
 # as the stable maintainers are much more able to do that.
-#
-# We have a script (generate-cve-exclusions.py) to have correct CVE status for backported issues,
-# but the data on linuxkernelcves.com isn't 100% complete for the older CVEs.  These historical
-# CVEs need review and typically linuxkernelcves.com updated and then removed from here.
-#
-
-CVE_STATUS_GROUPS += "CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC"
-
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC = "CVE-1999-0524 CVE-1999-0656 CVE-2006-2932 CVE-2007-2764 CVE-2007-4998 \ 
-                              CVE-2008-2544 CVE-2008-4609 CVE-2010-0298 CVE-2010-4563 CVE-2011-0640"
-CVE_STATUS_KERNEL_HISTORIC[status] = "ignored"
-
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-1999-0524] = "ignored: issue is that ICMP exists, can be filewalled if required"
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2008-4609] = "ignored: describes design flaws in TCP"
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2010-4563] = "ignored: low impact, only enables detection of hosts which are sniffing network traffic"
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2011-0640] = "ignored: requires physical access and any mitigation would mean USB is impractical to use"
 
 # qemu:qemu-native:qemu-system-native https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20255
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2021-20255] = "upstream-wontfix: \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/cve-exclusion.inc b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/cve-exclusion.inc
index 28f9c8ff2b..7857633943 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/cve-exclusion.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-kernel/linux/cve-exclusion.inc
@@ -1,3 +1,15 @@
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-1999-0656] = "not-applicable-config: specific to ugidd, part of the old user-mode NFS server"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2006-2932] = "not-applicable-platform: specific to RHEL"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2007-2764] = "not-applicable-platform: specific to Sun/Brocade SilkWorm switches"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2007-4998] = "cpe-incorrect: a historic cp bug, no longer an issue as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356471#c5"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2008-2544] = "disputed: not an issue as per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=449089#c22"
+
+CVE_STATUS[CVE-2010-0298] = "fixed-version: 2.6.34 (1871c6)"
+
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2014-2648] = "cpe-incorrect: not Linux"
 
 CVE_STATUS[CVE-2016-0774] = "ignored: result of incomplete backport"