CVE-2016-4485

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4485
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4485.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4485
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-23T10:59:01.220Z
Modified
2025-11-29T08:32:49.924741Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The llccmsgrcv function in net/llc/af_llc.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading a message.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/torvalds/linux

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed