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kernel: drivers/sound/pci/rme9652/hdsp.c: reading uninitialized stack memory

Published Nov 30, 2010

Description

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.

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Red Hat statement

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 as it did not include support for RME Hammerfall DSP Audio.

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Nov 30, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Oct 25, 2010
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date Sep 25, 2010