CVE-2016-2548

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 retains certain linked lists after a close or stop action, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted ioctl call, related to the (1) snd_timer_close and (2) _snd_timer_stop functions.

This flaw was found to be a duplicate of CVE-2016-2547. Please see https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-2547 for information about affected products and security errata.

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