vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-4486: linux -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
May 23, 2016
Added
Jun 28, 2016
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

The rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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