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SUSE: CVE-2016-5243: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2016-5243: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/27/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/11/2017
Modified
02/04/2022

Description

The tipc_nl_compat_link_dump function in net/tipc/netlink_compat.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not properly copy a certain string, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.

Solution(s)

  • suse-upgrade-kernel-default
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-docs
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-ec2-extra
  • suse-upgrade-kernel-obs-build

References

  • SUSE-SU-2017:1247-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1301-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:1360-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2342-1
  • SUSE-SU-2017:2525-1
  • DLA-516-1
  • DSA-3607
  • 91334
  • USN-3049-1
  • USN-3050-1
  • USN-3051-1
  • USN-3052-1
  • USN-3053-1
  • USN-3054-1
  • USN-3055-1
  • USN-3056-1
  • USN-3057-1
  • CVE-2016-5243
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