VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-9985

high
Published 2017-06-28 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
linux Linux kernel Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected 3.18.71
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected —
arch Arch Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Fixed 4.9.50-1
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.13.4-1
sid Fixed 4.13.4-1
forky Fixed 4.13.4-1
bullseye Fixed 4.13.4-1
bookworm Fixed 4.13.4-1

References

CWEs

CWE-125

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.