GSD-2016-4569

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
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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