CVE-2016-2545

Publication date

2016-04-27 17:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The snd_timer_interrupt function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not properly maintain a certain linked list, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition and system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.