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CVE-2011-1476

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer underflow in the Open Sound System (OSS) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 on unspecified non-x86 platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) by leveraging write access to /dev/sequencer.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.38.8; 2.6.38, 2.6.38-rc1, 2.6.38-rc2, 2.6.38-rc3, 2.6.38-rc4, 2.6.38-rc5 (+10)

References

• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b769f49463711205d57286e64cf535ed4daf59e9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/25/1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b769f49463711205d57286e64cf535ed4daf59e9
• http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39
• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b769f49463711205d57286e64cf535ed4daf59e9
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/25/1
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b769f49463711205d57286e64cf535ed4daf59e9

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