ubuntu · CVE-2016-7913

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-11-16 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-09-25 08:21:28 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-7913 medium priority: Ubuntu including 104 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 1004 status rows across 15 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, focal, jammy, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 697, not-affected 163, released 115, ignored 29.

Description:

The xc2028_set_config function in drivers/media/tuners/tuner-xc2028.c in the Linux kernel before 4.6 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (use-after-free) via vectors involving omission of the firmware name from a certain data structure.

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