Security Advisory

CVE-2016-2547

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-04-27 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-05 23:32:21
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 employs a locking approach that does not consider slave timer instances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition, use-after-free, and system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.