suse · CVE-2016-4569

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 13:42:15 UTC Updated: 2025-03-22 00:58:54 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-4569 severity low: SUSE including 239 source package names (kernel-3.10.0-514.el7, kernel-abi-whitelists-3.10.0-514.el7, …), 693 product×package rows across 107 product lines (SLES for SAP Applications 11 SP3, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, … (107 product lines)): Fixed 383, Known Not Affected 310.

Description:

The snd_timer_user_params function in sound/core/timer.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 crafted use of the ALSA timer interface.

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