From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: cve@kernel.org, linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org" <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
"Xen.org security team" <security@xen.org>
Subject: Re: CVE-2024-26908: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:11:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2024043015-pauper-aching-a3d4@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f73bb0fe-9ba6-46de-8732-bd372438068e@suse.com>
On Mon, Apr 29, 2024 at 01:53:44PM +0200, Juergen Gross wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to dispute CVE-2024-26908: the issue fixed by upstream commit
> 3693bb4465e6e32a204a5b86d3ec7e6b9f7e67c2 can in no way be triggered by
> an unprivileged user or by a remote attack of the system, as it requires
> hotplug of (virtual) cpus to the running system. This can be done only by
> either a host admin or by an admin of the guest which might suffer the
> out-of-memory situation.
>
> Please revoke this CVE.
Sorry for the delay, thanks for looking into this and letting us know.
It's now rejected.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-30 8:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-17 10:29 CVE-2024-26908: x86/xen: Add some null pointer checking to smp.c Greg Kroah-Hartman
2024-04-29 11:53 ` Juergen Gross
2024-04-30 8:11 ` Greg KH [this message]
2024-05-27 10:58 ` CVE-2021-47377: kernel: xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue Juergen Gross
2024-05-28 19:03 ` Greg KH
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