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Debian: CVE-2017-17975: linux -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2017-17975: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
12/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/02/2018
Modified
02/24/2020

Description

Use-after-free in the usbtv_probe function in drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering failure of audio registration, because a kfree of the usbtv data structure occurs during a usbtv_video_free call, but the usbtv_video_fail label's code attempts to both access and free this data structure.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-linux

References

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