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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2017-8831): Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 8, 2017
Added
Sep 19, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-generic-lpaeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-powerpc-e500ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-powerpc-e500mcubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-powerpc64-embubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-3-13-0-157-powerpc64-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1007-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1031-gkeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1035-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1074-raspi2ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-1076-snapdragonubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-generic-lpaeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-powerpc-e500mcubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-powerpc64-embubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-4-4-0-96-powerpc64-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-awsubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-genericubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpaeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lpae-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-generic-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-gkeubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-kvmubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatencyubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-lowlatency-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mcubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-e500mc-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc-smp-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-embubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-emb-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smpubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-powerpc64-smp-lts-xenialubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-raspi2ubuntu-upgrade-linux-image-snapdragon

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