CVE-2016-2545

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-2545
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2545.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-2545
Downstream
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Published
2016-04-27T17:59:15.023Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:16:05.292952Z
Severity
  • 5.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The sndtimerinterrupt function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 does not properly maintain a certain linked list, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition and system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-2545.json"
unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]