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CVE-2010-4076

Published: Nov 29, 2010

Modified: Sep 16, 2024

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Description

The rs_ioctl function in drivers/char/amiserial.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.36.1 and earlier does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20100925 CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=d281da7ff6f70efca0553c288bb883e8605b3862

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[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures

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[linux-kernel] 20100915 [PATCH] drivers/char/amiserial.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648661

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[oss-security] 20101006 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures

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[oss-security] 20101025 Re: CVE request: multiple kernel stack memory disclosures

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