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CVE-2017-9984high
Description
The snd_msnd_interrupt function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_pinnacle.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
References
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=196131
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/20e2b791796bd68816fa115f12be5320de2b8021