CVE-2017-16528 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2017-16528?

CVE-2017-16528 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 4 Nov 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

sound/core/seq_device.c in the Linux kernel before 4.13.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (snd_rawmidi_dev_seq_free use-after-free and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted USB device.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-16528?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2017-16528?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2017-16528 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-16528 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16528, GHSA-9vwf-r222-fcvc, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16528.