Uninitialized Structure Member Vulnerability in vivid_fb_ioctl Function

Uninitialized Structure Member Vulnerability in vivid_fb_ioctl Function

CVE-2015-7884 · LOW Severity

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

The vivid_fb_ioctl function in drivers/media/platform/vivid/vivid-osd.c in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a crafted application.

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