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LIN6-11370 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2016-4482

Created: May 31, 2016    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Aug 10, 2016
Found In Version: 6.0.0.29
Fix Version: 6.0.0.31
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 6
Component/s: Kernel

Description

The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.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 a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-4482

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