ubuntu · CVE-2016-5244

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-06-27 00:00:00 UTC Updated: 2025-09-25 09:43:42 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2016-5244 medium priority: Ubuntu including 99 source packages (linux, linux-armadaxp, …), 828 status rows across 13 suites (artful, bionic, focal, jammy, noble, plucky, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 551, not-affected 133, released 109, ignored 35.

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.

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