vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2016-9794

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2016-12-28
Added
2025-01-20
Modified
2025-02-04

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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