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CVE Reference: CVE-2010-4079
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2010-4079

Description:
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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA42890

REDHAT
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html
  http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html

MLIST
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1
  http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/393

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

CONFIRM
  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc8
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9

BID
  45062


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