CVE-2010-4079 — Vulnetix

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CVE-2010-4079 PUBLISHED

Reported by mitre · Published November 29, 2010

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.

Affected Products

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Timeline

Nov 29, 2010 CVE Published
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References

[oss-security] 20100925 CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
45062 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
RHSA-2011:0007 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
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RHSA-2010:0958 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
42890 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
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[oss-security] 20101025 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
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[linux-kernel] 20100915 [PATCH] drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
DSA-2126 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN

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