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Debian: CVE-2017-1000380: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 17, 2017
Added
Sep 25, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.5 is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer driver resulting in local users being able to read information belonging to other users, i.e., uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a read and an ioctl happen at the same time.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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