CVE-2016-4569

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4569DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4569
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 23
Modified
Published: 23 May 2016, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 00:32

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.83% LOW
1% probability +0.50%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

23 May 2016, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 00:32
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.0MEDIUMScore: 5.5CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
  • v2.0LOWScore: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.83% Percentile: 56%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-200Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

    The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.

Affected Systems

  • canonicalubuntu_linux

    12.04 | 14.04 | 15.10 | 16.04

  • debianlinux

    < 4.5.5-1 | < 4.5.5-1 | < 4.5.5-1 | < 4.5.5-1

  • ubuntulinux

    < 3.13.0-91.138 | < 4.4.0-28.47

  • ubuntulinux-azure

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde

    all

  • ubuntulinux-azure-fde-5.15

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gcp-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gke

    all

  • ubuntulinux-gkeop

    all

  • ubuntulinux-hwe

    all

  • ubuntulinux-hwe-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-hwe-edge

    all

  • ubuntulinux-intel-iot-realtime

    all

  • ubuntulinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11

    all

  • ubuntulinux-lts-utopic

    < 3.16.0-76.98~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-lts-vivid

    < 3.19.0-64.72~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-lts-wily

    < 4.2.0-41.48~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-lts-xenial

    < 4.4.0-28.47~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-raspi-realtime

    all

  • ubuntulinux-raspi2

    < 4.4.0-1016.22 | all

  • ubuntulinux-realtime

    all | all

  • ubuntulinux-riscv

    all | all | all

  • ubuntulinux-snapdragon

    < 4.4.0-1019.22

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    ≤ 4.6

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_debuginfo

    11.0:sp4

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_desktop

    12.0 | 12.0:sp1

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_live_patching

    12.0

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_module_for_public_cloud

    12.0

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_real_time_extension

    12.0:sp1

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_server

    11.0:extra | 11.0:sp4 | 12.0 | 12.0:sp1

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

    11.0:sp4 | 12.0 | 12.0:sp1

  • novellsuse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension

    12.0 | 12.0:sp1

References (47)