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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-KERNELHEADERS-5196901
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed14 Feb 2018
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Introduced: 14 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-7566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-362  (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.

The Linux kernel 4.15 has a Buffer Overflow via an SNDRV_SEQ_IOCTL_SET_CLIENT_POOL ioctl write operation to /dev/snd/seq by a local user.

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