CVE-2017-1000380: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.5 is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer driver resulting in local users being able to read information belonging to other users, i.e., uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a read and an ioctl happen at the same time.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.11.4

Published 2017-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.