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[USN-2928-1] Linux kernel vulnerability

Severity Medium
CVEs 1
Info Vulnerabilities

The system could be made to crash or run programs as an administrator by someone with physical access.

Andrey Konovalov discovered that the ALSA USB MIDI driver incorrectly
performed a double-free. A local attacker with physical access could use
this to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly execute
arbitrary code with administrative privileges.

ID
USN-2928-1
Severity
medium
Severity from
CVE-2016-2384
URL
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2928-1
Published
2016-03-14T15:34:10
(8 years ago)
Modified
2016-03-14T15:34:10
(8 years ago)
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