CVE-2016-5244

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-5244
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5244.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-5244
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-06-27T10:59:11.157Z
Modified
2026-03-15T22:08:30.062364Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The rdsincinfo_copy function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading an RDS message.

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
4fe89d07dcc2804c8b562f6c7896a45643d34b2f
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
1c163f4c7b3f621efff9b28a47abb36f7378d783
Fixed
4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb
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
4116def2337991b39919f3b448326e21c40e0dbb

Database specific

unresolved_ranges 
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source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-5244.json"