linux-kernel - Re: 2015 kernel CVEs

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Message-ID: <569E6ADC.2090306@hurleysoftware.com>
Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:57:00 -0800
From:	Peter Hurley <peter@...leysoftware.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: 2015 kernel CVEs

On 01/19/2016 03:28 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I like to look back over old CVEs to see how we could do better.  Here
> is the list from 2015.  I got most of this information from the Ubuntu
> CVE tracker.  Thanks Ubuntu!.  If it doesn't have a hash that means it
> might not be fixed yet.

[...]

> CVE-2015-4170 cf872776fc84: tty: hang in tty

Makes no sense that this was assigned a CVE.
I fixed this _2 yrs before_ it was reported and the patch was CC'd stable.

Regards,
Peter Hurley