CVE-2017-16528

medium
Published 2017-11-04 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
6.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
6.6

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
65%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16528

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-16528.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/fc27fe7e8deef2f37cba3f2be2d52b6ca5eb9d57

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed4.14-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.13.4-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.13.4-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.13.4-1
debian debiansidfixed4.13.4-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.13.4-1
linux linux-kernelaffected4.1.47
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu16.04affected

References

CWEs

CWE-416

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