Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5243

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-27 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:53:48
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The tipc_nl_compat_link_dump function in net/tipc/netlink_compat.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not properly copy a certain string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.