Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,4.6.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (8th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3004608
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Jun 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Jun 2016

CVE-2016-5243  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 4.6.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. 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 Base Scores

version 3.1