Security Advisory
CVE-2016-4482
6.2
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.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 a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call.
Published Date
May 23, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory