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SubjectRe: Updating cypress/brcm firmware in linux-firmware for CVE-2019-15126
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On 03/04/2020 7:45, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 2/26/20 11:16 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hello Cypress people,
>>
>> Can we please get updated firmware for
>> brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin and brcm/brcmfmac4356-sdio.bin
>> fixing CVE-2019-15126 as well as for any other affected
>> models (the 4356 is explicitly named in the CVE description) ?
>>
>> The current Cypress firmware files in linux-firmware are
>> quite old, e.g. for brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin linux-firmware has:
>> version 7.35.180.176 dated 2017-10-23, way before the CVE
>>
>> Where as https://community.cypress.com/docs/DOC-19000 /
>> cypress-fmac-v4.14.77-2020_0115.zip has:
>> version 7.35.180.197 which presumably contains a fix (no changelog)
>
> Ping?
>
> The very old age of the firmware files in linux-firmware is really
> UNACCEPTABLE and very irresponsible from a security POV. Please
> fix this very soon.
>
> If you do not reply to this email I see no choice but to switch
> the firmwares in linux-firmware over to the ones from the SDK which
> you do regularly update, e.g. those from:
> https://community.cypress.com/docs/DOC-19000
>
> Yes those are under an older, slightly different version of the Cypress
> license, which is less then ideal, but that license is still acceptable
> for linux-firmware (*) and since you are not providing any updates to
> the special builds you have been doing for linux-firmware you are
> really leaving us no option other then switching to the SDK version
> of the firmwares.

Hans,

As we discussed previously, those files are not suitable for
linux-firmware for the reason of regulatory (blobs are only for Cypress
reference boards and could violate regulatory on other boards); also
clm_blob download is not supported in kernels prior to 4.15 so those
files won't work with older kernels.

Chris owns the Cypress firmware upstream strategy and will explain our
going-forward strategy to you.


Regards,
Chi-hsien Lin


>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
> *) We have distributed files under the old version of the license before
>
> .
>

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