CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-4079
1.9 LOW
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- 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-200
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.36)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.36
• debian debian linux 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/393 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc8 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45062 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648666 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9 git.kernel.org
- http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/393 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42890 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc8 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45062 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648666 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory