CVE-2016-4482

Publication date

2016-05-23 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.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 a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call.