ghsa-8p5x-59f8-f4c8
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 03:56
Modified
2022-05-14 03:56
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-4569"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200"
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    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-05-23T10:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-8p5x-59f8-f4c8",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T03:56:53Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:56:53Z",
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