[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: msnd: Optimize / harden DSP and MIDI loops

[Greg KH]

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Hah, good luck trying to get a CVE withdrawn, people seem to love the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...