Information Exposure The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package realtime-kernel  (opens in a new tab)


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Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-REALTIMEKERNEL-9890752
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed4 May 2016

Introduced: 4 May 2016

CVE-2016-4486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (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 rtnl_fill_link_ifmap function in net/core/rtnetlink.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a Netlink message.

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