CVE-2016-4486

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 1.7%

from disclosure to weapon940 days

Published on NVDMay 23

1st PoC+940d

exploitation probability

1.7%top 25% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

2 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 2

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