CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-4078

1.9 LOW Published 2010-11-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-11-29
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
1.9 LOW — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-909

Description

The sisfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc6 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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36) • linux linux kernel 2.6.36 • opensuse opensuse 11.2 • opensuse opensuse 11.3 • suse linux enterprise desktop 10 • suse linux enterprise real time extension 11 • suse linux enterprise server 10 • suse linux enterprise software development kit 10 • debian debian linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-909 Missing Initialization of Resource weakness

References