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Tracker / CVE-2010-4080

CVE-2010-4080

Low 2.1

The snd_hdsp_hwdep_ioctl function in sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc6 does not initialize a certain structure, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via an SNDRV_HDSP_IOCTL_GET_CONFIG_INFO ioctl call.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.36
opensuse opensuse
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_real_time_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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