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CVE-2016-2547
sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 employs a locking approach that does not consider slave timer instances, which allows…
Medium5.1EPSS 0.34%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 employs a locking approach that does not consider slave timer instances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition, use-after-free, and system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.34% · top 73% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- USN-2930-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2967-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1311566 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- USN-2930-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b5a663aa426f4884c71cd8580adae73f33570f0d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5a663aa426f4884c71cd8580adae73f33570f0d (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-3503 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 83378 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-2967-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160119 Security bugs in Linux kernel sound subsystem (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-2930-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:1102 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-2929-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2932-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:2074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1035298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- USN-2931-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- USN-2929-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0911 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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