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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: grygorii tertychnyi <gtertych@cisco.com>,
	xe-linux-external@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 21:10:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170908191003.GA19292@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <s5h377xqga2.wl-tiwai@suse.de>

On Fri, Sep 08, 2017 at 06:57:57PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:06:25 +0200,
> grygorii tertychnyi wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > Could you please apply it for 4.4-stable.
> > This fixes https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9985
> 
> This vulnerability is just non-issue.  You can't get it working
> practically; it requires a modified hardware of the decade old ISA
> sound card, and yet the system has to load / set up the module
> beforehand.  We should withdraw it from CVE, IMO.

Hah, good luck trying to get a CVE withdrawn, people seem to love the
foolish things...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 16:06 [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops grygorii tertychnyi
2017-09-08 16:27 ` Greg KH
2017-09-08 16:57 ` Takashi Iwai
2017-09-08 17:47   ` Grygorii Tertychnyi (gtertych)
2017-09-12  7:17     ` [alsa-devel] " Takashi Iwai
2017-09-12 12:34       ` gregkh
2017-09-12 12:38         ` Takashi Iwai
2017-09-08 19:10   ` Greg KH [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-08 16:06 grygorii tertychnyi

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