CVE-2016-4578: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the 1 sndtimeruserccallback and 2 sndtimerusertinterrupt...

PT-2016-6029

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.7 Description The issue is related to the snd timer user params function in the sound/core/timer.c file of the Linux kernel. This function does not properly initialize a certain data structure, allowing local...