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F5 Networks: K85332020 (CVE-2016-4486): Netlink message vulnerability CVE-2016-4486

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
2016-05-23
Added
2017-02-16
Modified
2018-02-01

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

f5-big-ip-upgrade-latest

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