vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-9794: Important: kernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2016:2574)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 3, 2016
Added
Dec 15, 2016
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

Race condition in the snd_pcm_period_elapsed function in sound/core/pcm_lib.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START command.

Solutions

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