CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2547

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2016-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.7 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References