VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Dec 28, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-9794

CVE-2016-9794

Description

Race condition in the snd_pcm_period_elapsed function in sound/core/pcm_lib.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_PCM_TRIGGER_START command.

AI Insight

LLM-synthesized narrative grounded in this CVE's description and references.

Affected products

146

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

15

News mentions

0

No linked articles in our index yet.