Re: Backport a Security Fix for CVE-2015-7833 to v4.1

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Hi Vladis,

> I apologize for intercepting, but I believe commit 588afcc1 should
> not be accepted and reverted in the trees where it was.
>
> Reasons:
>
> https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/32798/
> or
> https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg96936.html
Thank you for your reply.

If it revert commit 588afcc1 from the kernel,
It exists a Security Issue of CVE-2015-7833.
What do you think about it?

Best regards,
Yuki Machida

On 2016年04月11日 21:03, Vladis Dronov wrote:
Hello,

I apologize for intercepting, but I believe commit 588afcc1 should
not be accepted and reverted in the trees where it was.

Reasons:

https://patchwork.linuxtv.org/patch/32798/
or
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg96936.html


Best regards,
Vladis Dronov | Red Hat, Inc. | Product Security Engineer

----- Original Message -----
From: "Yuki Machida" <machida.yuki@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "sasha levin" <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx, oneukum@xxxxxxxx, vdronov@xxxxxxxxxx, mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 7:19:34 AM
Subject: Backport a Security Fix for CVE-2015-7833 to v4.1

Hi Sasha,

I conformed that these patches for CVE-2015-7833 not applied at v4.1.21.
588afcc1c0e45358159090d95bf7b246fb67565
fa52bd506f274b7619955917abfde355e3d19ff
Could you please apply this CVE-2015-7833 fix for 4.1-stable ?

References:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7833
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=588afcc1c0e45358159090d95bf7b246fb67565f
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=fa52bd506f274b7619955917abfde355e3d19ffe

Regards,
Yuki Machida

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