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SUSE: CVE-2017-15265: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2017-15265: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/16/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/25/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-azure-base
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default-man
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-devel-azure
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-source-azure

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:2847-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2908-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2920-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:3165-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:3265-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:3267-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:3410-1
  • SUSE-SU-2018:0040-1
  • USN-3485-1
  • USN-3485-2
  • USN-3485-3
  • USN-3487-1
  • USN-3698-1
  • USN-3698-2
  • CVE-2017-15265
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