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Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9859198
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed16 Mar 2016
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Introduced: 16 Mar 2016

CVE-2016-2117  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream realtime-kernel package and not the realtime-kernel package as distributed by RHEL.

The atl2_probe function in drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atlx/atl2.c in the Linux kernel through 4.5.2 incorrectly enables scatter/gather I/O, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by reading packet data.

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