CVE-2016-4569

Name	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
References	DLA-516-1, DSA-3607-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	bullseye	5.10.223-1	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.226-1	fixed
	bookworm	6.1.115-1	fixed
	bookworm (security)	6.1.112-1	fixed
	trixie	6.11.7-1	fixed
	sid	6.11.9-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Origin
linux	source	wheezy	3.2.81-1	DLA-516-1
linux	source	jessie	3.16.7-ckt25-2+deb8u2	DSA-3607-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.5.5-1

Notes

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2214250
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e