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Tracker / CVE-2008-3272

CVE-2008-3272

Low 2.1

The snd_seq_oss_synth_make_info function in sound/core/seq/oss/seq_oss_synth.c in the sound subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.27-rc2 does not verify that the device number is within the range defined by max_synthdev before returning certain data to the caller, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.27
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation

Analysis

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