Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4578

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-23 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 00:32:25

Assigner mitre

State PUBLISHED

Description

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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