CVE-2016-5244 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5244?

CVE-2016-5244 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 27 Jun 2016. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The rds_inc_info_copy function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by reading an RDS message.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5244?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5244?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2016-5244 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5244 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5244, GHSA-m496-5jfw-8fgm, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5244.