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CVE-2016-4578
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-05-23T10:59:09.050 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:47:49.490

Summary

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.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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