Uninitialized Data Structure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's ALSA Timer Interface

CVE-2016-4569 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

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