CVE-2011-1477

high

Description

Multiple array index errors in sound/oss/opl3.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging write access to /dev/sequencer.

References

Advisories
More

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/25/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-21

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H