A vulnerability was found in Linux kernel. There is an information leak in file sound/core/timer.c of the latest mainline Linux kernel. The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field “event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.
Upstream patches: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9a47e9cff994f37f7f0dbd9ae23740d0f64f9fe6 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5
CVE-ID request and assignment: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/315 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/316
Statement: This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/. This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2574 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2574.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Via RHSA-2016:2584 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2584.html