CVE-2016-4578

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.4 (Ubuntu 16.04) - 'snd_timer_user_ccallback()' Kernel Pointer Leak

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Record summary

CVE-2016-4578 has a selected CVSS score of 5.5 (medium); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

Description

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) snd_timer_user_ccallback and (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions.

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Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

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Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBLinux Kernel 4.4 (Ubuntu 16.04) - 'snd_timer_user_ccallback()' Kernel Pointer LeakExploitDB exploitby wally0813Not analyzed1 file
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