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CVE-2017-17975
medium
Description
Use-after-free in the usbtv_probe function in drivers/media/usb/usbtv/usbtv-core.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.10 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering failure of audio registration, because a kfree of the usbtv data structure occurs during a usbtv_video_free call, but the usbtv_video_fail label's code attempts to both access and free this data structure.
References
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4188
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3657-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3656-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3654-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3653-1/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102330
http://linuxtesting.org/pipermail/ldv-project/2017-November/001008.html