The llc_cmsg_rcv 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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2016-05-18 14:00 | ALAS-2016-703 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |