CVE-2017-8831: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 14.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 7.0 only
• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.11.5

Published 2017-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.