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CVE-2016-4482
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.2
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-23T10:59:00.113 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:47:38.283

Summary

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.

Affected products

canonical — ubuntu_linux

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References

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