Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4569

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date May 23, 2016
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory