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Red Hat: CVE-2016-4569: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update ((Multiple Advisories))

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Red Hat: CVE-2016-4569: Important: kernel-rt security, bug fix, and enhancement update ((Multiple Advisories))

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
05/23/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/04/2016
Modified
06/21/2018

Description

The snd_timer_user_params function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-kernel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-abi-whitelists
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-bootwrapper
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debug
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debug-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debug-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-headers
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-kdump
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-kdump-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-kdump-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debug-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-debuginfo-common-x86_64
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-trace
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-trace-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-rt-trace-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs
  • redhat-upgrade-kernel-tools-libs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-perf
  • redhat-upgrade-perf-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-python-perf
  • redhat-upgrade-python-perf-debuginfo

References

  • 90347
  • DLA-516-1
  • DSA-3607
  • CVE-2016-4569
  • RHSA-2016:2574
  • RHSA-2016:2584
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1672
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1690
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1696
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1937
  • SUSE-SU-2016:1985
  • SUSE-SU-2016:2105
  • USN-3016-1
  • USN-3016-2
  • USN-3016-3
  • USN-3016-4
  • USN-3017-1
  • USN-3017-2
  • USN-3017-3
  • USN-3018-1
  • USN-3018-2
  • USN-3019-1
  • USN-3020-1
  • USN-3021-1
  • USN-3021-2
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