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CVE-2011-1477

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 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: none known
• Published: 2012-06-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple array index errors in sound/oss/opl3.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging write access to /dev/sequencer.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 2.6.38.8
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp4

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=4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df
• 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/4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df
• 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=4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df
• 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/4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df

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