cve-2010-4079
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2010-11-29 15:00
Modified
2024-08-07 03:34
Severity ?
Summary
The ivtvfb_ioctl function in drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc8 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an FBIOGET_VBLANK ioctl call.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9
cve@mitre.orghttp://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/393Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/42890Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc8Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.htmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45062Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648666Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/an/a
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