Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9794

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-28 07:42:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:59:03
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.