Published: 29/11/2010 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 1.9 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.4

VMScore: 170

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

The sisfb_ioctl function in drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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linux linux kernel 2.6.36
linux linux kernel
suse linux enterprise server 10
opensuse opensuse 11.2
opensuse opensuse 11.3
suse linux enterprise desktop 10
suse linux enterprise software development kit 10
suse linux enterprise real time extension 11
debian debian linux 5.0

Multiple kernel flaws ...

Tavis Ormandy discovered that the Linux kernel did not properly implement exception fixup A local attacker could exploit this to crash the kernel, leading to a denial of service (CVE-2010-3086) ...

Multiple kernel flaws ...

CWE-909 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/v2.6.36/ChangeLog-2.6.36-rc6 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/07/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/06/6 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=648665 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/10/25/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/25/2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2126 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html http://secunia.com/advisories/42778 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0012 http://secunia.com/advisories/42801 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43810 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:051 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fd02db9de73faebc51240619c7c7f99bee9f65c7 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1072-1/

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