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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package kernel-headers  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-4882690
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed5 Dec 2017
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Introduced: 5 Dec 2017

CVE-2017-0861  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the snd_pcm_info function in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel allows attackers to gain privileges via unspecified vectors.

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