CVE-2011-1169
Description
From CVE.org
Array index error in the asihpi_hpi_ioctl function in sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c in the AudioScience HPI driver in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38.1 might allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly gain privileges via a crafted adapter index value that triggers access to an invalid kernel pointer.
Statement
The Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG are not affected as they did not backport upstream commit 719f82d3 that introduced this issue.
Acknowledgements
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting this issue.
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