CVE-2016-9178

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.7.5

Description The issue allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory by triggering failure of a get user ex call, due to the get user asm ex macro in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h not initializing a certain integer variable.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.7.5, update to version 4.7.5 or later to resolve the issue.