sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the (1) snd_timer_user_ccallback and (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-05-23T10:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:25.830Z
Reserved: 2016-05-11T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-4578
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2016-05-23T10:59:09.050
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:52:32.230
Link: CVE-2016-4578
Redhat