VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 23, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-4578

CVE-2016-4578

Description

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize certain r1 data structures, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface, related to the (1) snd_timer_user_ccallback and (2) snd_timer_user_tinterrupt functions.

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