CVE-2016-4580

Publication date

2016-05-23 10:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The x25_negotiate_facilities function in net/x25/x25_facilities.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not properly initialize a certain data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an X.25 Call Request.