cve/2010/CVE-2010-4075.md

CVE-2010-4075

Description

The uart_get_count function in drivers/serial/serial_core.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.37-rc1 does not properly initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a TIOCGICOUNT ioctl call.

POC

Reference

• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0007.html
• http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0012.html

Github

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