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CVE-2016-4578: Infoleak

First published: Tue May 03 2016(Updated: )

A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel. There is an information leak in file sound/core/timer.c of the latest mainline Linux kernel. The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field “event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.

Credit: cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
redhat/kernel-rt<0:3.10.0-514.rt56.420.el7
0:3.10.0-514.rt56.420.el7
redhat/kernel<0:3.10.0-514.el7
0:3.10.0-514.el7
debian/linux
5.10.223-1
5.10.226-1
6.1.123-1
6.1.119-1
6.12.10-1
6.12.11-1
Linux Kernel<=4.6
Ubuntu Linux=12.04
Ubuntu Linux=14.04
Ubuntu Linux=15.10
Ubuntu Linux=16.04
Debian GNU/Linux=8.0
redhat enterprise Linux desktop=7.0
redhat enterprise Linux server=7.0
redhat enterprise Linux server aus=7.3
redhat enterprise Linux server aus=7.4
redhat enterprise Linux server aus=7.6
redhat enterprise Linux server eus=7.3
redhat enterprise Linux server eus=7.4
redhat enterprise Linux server eus=7.5
redhat enterprise Linux server eus=7.6
redhat enterprise Linux server tus=7.3
redhat enterprise Linux server tus=7.6
redhat enterprise Linux workstation=7.0
openSUSE=42.1
openSUSE=13.1

Remedy

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

Remedy

https://git.kernel.org/linus/9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6

Remedy

https://git.kernel.org/linus/e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5

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