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CVE-2016-4486: Infoleak

First published: Thu May 05 2016(Updated: )

An information leak vulnerability in rtnetlink subsystem in Linux kernel was found in "net/core/rtnetlink.c". The stack object "map" has a total size of 32 bytes. Its last 4 bytes are padding generated by compiler. These padding bytes are not initialized and sent out via nla_put(). Public via: <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=146230821206492&amp;w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&amp;m=146230821206492&amp;w=2</a> <a href="http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=146230822606494&amp;w=2">http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&amp;m=146230822606494&amp;w=2</a> CVE-ID request and assignment: <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/234">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/234</a> <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/237">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/237</a> Upstream patch: <a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6</a> <a href="https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6">https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6</a>

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit=11.0-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit=12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo=11.0-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop=12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Live Patching=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Module For Public Cloud=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension=12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server=11.0-extra
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server=11.0-sp4
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server=12.0-sp1
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension=12.0
Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension=12.0-sp1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=15.10
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=16.04
Linux Linux kernel<=4.5.4
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
6.1.115-1
6.1.119-1
6.11.10-1
6.12.5-1

Remedy

https://git.kernel.org/linus/1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2

Remedy

https://git.kernel.org/linus/5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6

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