CVE-2016-5244

Public on 2016-06-27
Modified on 2016-08-17
Description
A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in function rds_inc_info_copy of file net/rds/recv.c. The last field "flags" of object "minfo" is not initialized. This can leak data previously at the flags location to userspace.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
1.9
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2016-08-01 ALAS-2016-726 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N