| Name | CVE-2004-0178 |
| Description | The OSS code for the Sound Blaster (sb16) driver in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26, when operating in 16 bit mode, does not properly handle certain sample sizes, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a sample with an odd number of bytes. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-479, DSA-480, DSA-481, DSA-482, DSA-489, DSA-491, DSA-495 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (fixed before first upload; 2.6.8)
- kernel-source-2.4.27 <not-affected> (Fixed before upload into archive; 2.4.26-pre3)