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SUSE: CVE-2016-2544: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 30, 2016
Added
Apr 7, 2016
Modified
Jun 21, 2018

Description

Race condition in the queue_delete function in sound/core/seq/seq_queue.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free and system crash) by making an ioctl call at a certain time.

Solutions

suse-upgrade-kernel-defaultsuse-upgrade-kernel-docs

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