CVE-2017-8831
Moderate
CVE-2017-8831
The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
Exploit probability
0.4%
Published
May 8, 2017
Required by
Not available
Last source change
March 15, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-8831
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The saa7164_bus_get function in drivers/media/pci/saa7164/saa7164-bus.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) or possibly have unspecified other impact by changing a certain sequence-number value, aka a "double fetch" vulnerability.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540770/30/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99619
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=195559
- https://github.com/stoth68000/media-tree/commit/354dd3924a2e43806774953de536257548b5002c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3754-1/