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Low severity3.3NVD Advisory· Published May 23, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-4486

CVE-2016-4486

Description

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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