5.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2017-1000380

Published: 17/06/2017 Updated: 06/12/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 2.1 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8
VMScore: 189
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel prior to 4.11.5 is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer driver resulting in local users being able to read information belonging to other users, i.e., uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a read and an ioctl happen at the same time.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: kernel security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base ...
Synopsis Moderate: kernel-rt security and bug fix update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) ...
Synopsis Moderate: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for kernel-rt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scorin ...
Debian Bug report logs - #875881 linux: CVE-2017-1000251 Package: src:linux; Maintainer for src:linux is Debian Kernel Team <debian-kernel@listsdebianorg>; Reported by: Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientianet> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:42:01 UTC Severity: critical Tags: confirmed, fixed-upstream, security, ...
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel that may lead to privilege escalation, denial of service or information leaks CVE-2017-7518 Andy Lutomirski discovered that KVM is prone to an incorrect debug exception (#DB) error occurring while emulating a syscall instruction A process inside a guest can take advanta ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...
It was found that the timer functionality in the Linux kernel ALSA subsystem is prone to a race condition between read and ioctl system call handlers, resulting in an uninitialized memory disclosure to user space A local user could use this flaw to read information belonging to other users ...