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CVE-2016-2548

6.2 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.2) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 retains certain linked lists after a close or stop action, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted ioctl call, related to the (1) snd_timer_close and (2) _snd_timer_stop functions.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

6.2 medium
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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