CVE-2016-4569

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4569
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4569.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4569
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-23T10:59:08.097Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:07:55.142528Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The sndtimeruser_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.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
2dcd0af568b0cf583645c8a317dd12e344b1c72a
Fixed
cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e
Database specific 
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Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e

Database specific

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source 
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