Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's sound/core/timer.c

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's sound/core/timer.c

CVE-2016-2548 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 retains certain linked lists after a close or stop action, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted ioctl call, related to the (1) snd_timer_close and (2) _snd_timer_stop functions.

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