CVE-2016-2547

Name	CVE-2016-2547
Description	sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 employs a locking approach that does not consider slave timer instances, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (race condition, use-after-free, and system crash) via a crafted ioctl call.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DSA-3503-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.269-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.158-2	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.162-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.20-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.73-2+deb7u3	DSA-3503-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.7-ckt20-1+deb8u4	DSA-3503-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.4.2-1
linux-2.6	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Upstream fix: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b5a663aa426f4884c71cd8580adae73f33570f0d (v4.5-rc1)