oss-security - Re: Re: CVE-2016-5400 - linux kernel: denial of service in airspy USB driver.

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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2016 12:16:54 +1000
From: Wade Mealing <wmealing@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: CVE-2016-5400 - linux kernel: denial of
 service in airspy USB driver.

> Any reason why this isn't tagged for a stable kernel release?

Patch was sent to airspy maintainer by James Patrick-Evans (The flaw
submitter) on July 17th.  I have no control over maintainers.

LKML process is likely best kept off list.

Thanks,

Wade Mealing

On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:51:16AM +1000, Wade Mealing wrote:
>> Hit send too early,
>>
>>
>> Upstream patch:
>> https://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/?id=eca2d34b9d2ce70165a50510659838e28ca22742
>>
>> Maintainer has yet to send to LKML.
>
> If it's in the media tree, it doesn't go to lkml.
>
> Any reason why this isn't tagged for a stable kernel release?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h

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