USN-9035-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Pengfei Wang discovered that the Turtle Beach MultiSound audio device driver in the Linux kernel contained race conditions when fetching from the ring-buffer, leading to an out-of-bounds access. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2017-9986) Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these…

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