cve/2016/CVE-2016-4569.md

### [CVE-2016-4569](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-4569)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=n%2Fa&color=brighgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/bcoles/kasld