CVE-2018-10902

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

It was found that the raw midi kernel driver does not protect against concurrent access which leads to a double realloc (double free) in snd_rawmidi_input_params() and snd_rawmidi_output_status() which are part of snd_rawmidi_ioctl() handler in rawmidi.c file. A malicious local attacker could possibly use this for privilege escalation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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-2018-10902

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10902.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.17.15-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.17.15-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.17.15-1
debian debiansidfixed4.17.15-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.17.15-1

References

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