V4L/DVB: ivtvfb: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:44:22 +0000 (18:44 -0300)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:27:10 +0000 (13:27 -0800)
commit7c119c7e373988b0fd80244fdcbfc7846522d1c9
tree3da42033a04879f2eb0baa56233bad1c34937852
parente2de51a1c73d762ee1b5246053b087e295f4a7e9
V4L/DVB: ivtvfb: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory

commit 405707985594169cfd0b1d97d29fcb4b4c6f2ac9 upstream.

The FBIOGET_VBLANK device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 16
bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "reserved" member of
the fb_vblank struct declared on the stack is not altered or zeroed
before being copied back to the user.  This patch takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c