Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 121045
CAN-2004-0178 Soundblaster 16 local DoS
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:07:01 EST
Minor severity: An improperly handled sample size in the Sound Blaster 16 driver for Linux 2.4.x allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash). Reported via Alan Cox from Andreas Kies on March 02. Public from April 14th.
The fix in comment #1 has just been committed to the RHEL3 U3 patch pool this evening (in kernel version 2.4.21-15.3.EL).
A fix for this problem has also been committed to the RHEL3 E3 patch pool (in kernel version 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL).
An errata has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-413.html