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Tracker / CVE-2017-15265

CVE-2017-15265

High 7.0

Race condition in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted /dev/snd/seq ioctl calls, related to sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c and sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.2.95
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.16.50
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.76
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.46
linux linux_kernel · 3.3 → 3.10.108
linux linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.13.8
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.93
linux linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.57

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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