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

### [CVE-2016-4569](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4569)
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### 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