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