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.
References
Link Resource
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd02db9de73faebc51240619c7c7f99bee9f65c7
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 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-rc6 Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:051 Third Party Advisory
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.securityfocus.com/bid/43810 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 Third Party Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648665 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2010-11-29T15:00:00

Updated: 2011-01-15T10:00:00

Reserved: 2010-10-25T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2010-4078

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2010-11-29T16:00:03.713

Modified: 2023-11-07T02:06:06.037


Link: CVE-2010-4078

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