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Tracker / CVE-2016-4569

CVE-2016-4569

Medium 5.5

The snd_timer_user_params function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.6
novell suse_linux_enterprise_debuginfo
novell suse_linux_enterprise_desktop
novell suse_linux_enterprise_live_patching
novell suse_linux_enterprise_module_for_public_cloud
novell suse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
novell suse_linux_enterprise_server
novell suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit
novell suse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension

Analysis

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