vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-16648: Important: kernel-alt security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2018:2948)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 7, 2017
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Mar 3, 2021

Description

The dvb_frontend_free function in drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c in the Linux kernel through 4.13.11 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device. NOTE: the function was later renamed __dvb_frontend_free.

Solution

redhat-upgrade-kernel
Title
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