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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.

POC

Reference

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

Github

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