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Tracker / CVE-2016-4485

CVE-2016-4485

High 7.5

The llc_cmsg_rcv function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a message.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.5.4
novell suse_linux_enterprise_debuginfo
novell suse_linux_enterprise_server
novell suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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