Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops

From	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops
Date	2017-09-08 21:20 +0200
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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Hah, good luck trying to get a CVE withdrawn, people seem to love the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...

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[PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops grygorii tertychnyi <gtertych@cisco.com> - 2017-09-08 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-08 18:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> - 2017-09-08 19:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops "Grygorii Tertychnyi (gtertych)" <gtertych@cisco.com> - 2017-09-08 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-09-08 21:20 +0200

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