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CVE-2014-9904 medium priority: Ubuntu including 27 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 158 status rows across 6 suites (precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety): DNE 98, released 29, not-affected 24, ignored 7.
The snd_compress_check_input function in sound/core/compress_offload.c in the ALSA subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.17 does not properly check for an integer overflow, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (insufficient memory allocation) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_PARAMS ioctl call.