The proc_connectinfo function in drivers/usb/core/devio.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 a crafted USBDEVFS_CONNECTINFO ioctl call.
                
            Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
        History
                    No history.
 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2016-05-23T10:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T00:32:25.667Z
Reserved: 2016-05-04T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-4482
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    No data.
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-05-23T10:59:00.113
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2016-4482
 Redhat
                        Redhat