ghsa-mrgv-56mw-m87g
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 01:15
Modified
2022-05-14 01:15
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-4578"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-05-23T10:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-mrgv-56mw-m87g",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T01:15:49Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T01:15:49Z",
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