suse · CVE-2016-4486

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:06 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:58:39 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4486 severity low: SUSE including 226 source package names (kernel-bigsmp-3.0.101-0.47.86.1, kernel-bigsmp-base-3.0.101-0.47.86.1, …), 510 product×package rows across 71 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE Enterprise Storage 6, … (71 product lines)): Fixed 371, Known Not Affected 139.

Description:

The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.

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