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CVE-2017-16528 (GCVE-0-2017-16528)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-04 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:27
VLAI
Summary
sound/core/seq_device.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc27fe7e… x_refsource_MISC
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/kuZzDHG… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2017-11-03 00:00
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