UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4578
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UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4578
Summary:
Details: 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.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-4578, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6, https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3016-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3016-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3017-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3017-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3016-3, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3016-4, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3017-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3020-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3018-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3018-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3019-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3021-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3021-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4578
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=trusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
