USN-3169-4: linux-snapdragon Ubuntu

Published

Published 11-01-2017Last modified 10-02-2026

Vulnerability summary

USN-3169-4 is a vulnerability in linux-snapdragon Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Priority

Insufficient evidence

No CVSS vector published; no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?

CVSS score

Not scored

010

No CVSS score recorded

EPSS scoreNot scoredRisk metrics not yet published.

KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.

RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.

Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 2

CVE-2016-9793 CVE-2016-9794

Timeline

11-01-2017
PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
10-02-2026
Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities Baozeng Ding discovered a race condition that could lead to a use-after- free in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash). (CVE-2016-9794) Andrey Konovalov discovered that signed integer overflows existed in the setsockopt() system call when handling the SO_SNDBUFFORCE and SO_RCVBUFFORCE options. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability could use this to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption). (CVE-2016-9793)