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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2022 17:51:21 -0400
From: Demi Marie Obenour <demi@...isiblethingslab.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, shuster@...moo.tu-darmstadt.de
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: Various Linux Kernel WLAN security issues
 (RCE/DOS) found

On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 12:10:54PM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Security Researcher Soenke Huster from Tu Darmstadt (
> shuster@...moo.tu-darmstadt.de ) emailed SUSE with a buffer overwrite in
> the Linux Kernel mac80211 framework triggered by WLAN frames.
> 
> We delegated the issue to the kernel security folks, and Soenke and
> Johannes Berg from Intel evaluated and worked on this issue.
> 
> During their research they found multiple more problems in the WLAN
> stack, exploitable over the air.
> 
> The patchset has been posted to the netdev list just now and will be
> merged in the next hours/days:
> 
> 	https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20221013100522.46346-1-johannes@sipsolutions.net/T/#u

Are these fixes going to be backported to stable?  I did not see
CC: stable@...r.kernel.org in any of the commit messages.
-- 
Sincerely,
Demi Marie Obenour (she/her/hers)
Invisible Things Lab

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