VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel.
Advisory: CVE-2017-9985
Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-9985
CVSS severity score: 7.2/10.0
Description:
The snd_msndmidi_input_read function in sound/isa/msnd/msnd_midi.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (over-boundary access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing the value of a message queue head pointer between two kernel reads of that value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.
Comment 1 by dominickn@chromium.org
, Jul 3 2017Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)