CVE-2011-1477 - Tyrannous Guards

Description

Multiple array index errors in sound/oss/opl3.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39 allow local users to cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging write access to /dev/sequencer.

Reference

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/03/25/1 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4d00135a680727f6c3be78f8befaac009030e4df http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00020.html