Race condition vulnerability in ALSA subsystem in Linux kernel before 4.13.8

Race condition vulnerability in ALSA subsystem in Linux kernel before 4.13.8

CVE-2017-15265 · HIGH Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

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