vulnerability
Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2016-5244: Security patch for kernel (ALAS-2016-726)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) | Jun 27, 2016 | Aug 1, 2016 | Oct 14, 2022 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Jun 27, 2016
Added
Aug 1, 2016
Modified
Oct 14, 2022
Description
The rds_inc_info_copy function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading an RDS message.
Solution
amazon-linux-upgrade-kernel
References
- AMAZON-ALAS-2016-726
- SUSE-SUSE-SU-2016:1672
- SUSE-SUSE-SU-2016:1690
- SUSE-SUSE-SU-2016:1937
- SUSE-SUSE-SU-2016:1985
- SUSE-SUSE-SU-2016:2105
- DEBIAN-DLA-516-1
- DEBIAN-DSA-3607
- BID-91021
- SECTRACK-1041895
- UBUNTU-USN-3070-1
- UBUNTU-USN-3070-2
- UBUNTU-USN-3070-3
- UBUNTU-USN-3070-4
- UBUNTU-USN-3071-1
- UBUNTU-USN-3071-2
- UBUNTU-USN-3072-1
- UBUNTU-USN-3072-2
- NVD-CVE-2016-5244

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