CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15265

7.0 HIGH Published 2017-10-16 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-16
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

Race condition in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted /dev/snd/seq ioctl calls, related to sound/core/seq/seq_clientmgr.c and sound/core/seq/seq_ports.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.95) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.10.108) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 < 3.16.50) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.76) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.46) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.93) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.57) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.13.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

References