Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's hrtimer.c

CVE-2016-2549 · LOW Severity

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

sound/core/hrtimer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not prevent recursive callback access, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) via a crafted ioctl call.

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