CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-4569.md

CVE-2016-4569

Description

The snd_timer_user_params function in sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6 does not initialize a certain data structure, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via crafted use of the ALSA timer interface.

POC

Reference

• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3017-2
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3021-2

Github

• https://github.com/bcoles/kasld