The vulnerability of the ALSA/dev/snd/timer driver (sound/core/timer.c) in the Linux operating system allows a hacker to obtain confidential information.

The vulnerability of the ALSA/dev/snd/timer driver sound/core/timer.c in the Linux operating system is related to the disclosure of information during simultaneous data reading and analysis. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker, operating locally, to obtain confidential information...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000380

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 ti...