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Tracker / CVE-2016-4578

CVE-2016-4578

Medium 5.5

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the (1) snd_timer_user_ccallback and (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.6
opensuse leap
opensuse opensuse
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
redhat enterprise_linux_server
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus
redhat enterprise_linux_server_eus
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation

Analysis

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