Security Advisory

CVE-2016-4482

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-05-23 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 00:32:25

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

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.

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