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CVE-2017-16527

medium

Description

sound/usb/mixer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (snd_usb_mixer_interrupt use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/syzkaller/jf7GTr_g2CU/iVlLhMciCQAJ

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/124751d5e63c823092060074bd0abaae61aaa9c4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-04

Updated: 2025-04-20

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: 6.6

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00035