CVE-2010-4079

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648666

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45062

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

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0958.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2

http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126

http://secunia.com/advisories/42890

http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/15/393

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2010-4055

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc8

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2010-11-29

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00075