Uninitialized Structure Members Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2010-3881 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

arch/x86/kvm/x86.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 does not initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via read operations on the /dev/kvm device.

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