CVE-2016-9794

Condición de carrera en la función snd_pcm_period_elapsed en sound/core/pcm_lib.c en el subsistema de ALSA en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a 4.7 permite a usuarios locales provocar una denegación de servicio (uso después de liberación de memoria) o posiblemente tener otro impacto no especificado a través de un comando SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START manipulado.

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in ALSA pcm layer, which allows local users to cause a denial of service, memory corruption, or possibly other unspecified impact. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out, although we believe it is unlikely.

Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows existed in the setsockopt system call when handling the SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE options. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to cause a denial of service. Various other issues were also addressed.