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From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
To: grygorii tertychnyi <gtertych@cisco.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, 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, 08 Sep 2017 18:57:57 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <s5h377xqga2.wl-tiwai@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170908160626.24771-1-gtertych@cisco.com>

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.


thanks,

Takashi

> 
> Takashi Iwai (1):
>   ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops
> 
>  sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c     | 30 +++++++++++++++---------------
>  sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
>  2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.10.3.dirty
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-09-08 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-08 16:06 grygorii tertychnyi
2017-09-08 16:27 ` Greg KH
2017-09-08 16:57 ` Takashi Iwai [this message]
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
2017-09-08 16:06 grygorii tertychnyi

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