Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's tipc_nl_compat_link_dump Function

CVE-2016-5243 · LOW Severity

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

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.

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