Security Advisory

CVE-2016-5244

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-06-27 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 00:53:48
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

The rds_inc_info_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.