CVE-2016-4486

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-4486
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4486.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-4486
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-05-23T10:59:02.707Z
Modified
2026-04-11T12:04:13.162989Z
Severity
  • 3.3 (Low) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The rtnlfilllink_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.

Database specific 
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}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6
Database specific 
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Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-4486.json"