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Tracker / CVE-2013-1928

CVE-2013-1928

Medium 4.7

The do_video_set_spu_palette function in fs/compat_ioctl.c in the Linux kernel before 3.6.5 on unspecified architectures lacks a certain error check, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted VIDEO_SET_SPU_PALETTE ioctl call on a /dev/dvb device.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 3.6.4
redhat enterprise_linux

Analysis

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