CVE-2016-5243

Aliases:UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5243DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5243
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 17
Modified
Published: 27 Jun 2016, 10:00
Last modified:06 Aug 2024, 00:53

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
22/100
CVSS Score
5.5 MEDIUM
v3.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.51% LOW
1% probability +0.46%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

27 Jun 2016, 10:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
06 Aug 2024, 00:53
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

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: 0.51% Percentile: 42%

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

  • debianlinux

    < 4.6.2-1 | < 4.6.2-1 | < 4.6.2-1 | < 4.6.2-1

  • ubuntulinux

    < 3.13.0-93.140 | < 4.4.0-34.53

  • 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-vivid

    < 3.19.0-66.74~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-lts-xenial

    < 4.4.0-34.53~14.04.1

  • ubuntulinux-raspi-realtime

    all

  • ubuntulinux-raspi2

    < 4.4.0-1019.25 | all

  • ubuntulinux-realtime

    all | all

  • ubuntulinux-riscv

    all | all | all

  • ubuntulinux-snapdragon

    < 4.4.0-1022.25

  • linuxlinux_kernel

    ≤ 4.6.3

References (28)