[PATCH] drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c: prevent readinguninitialized stack memory

[Dan Rosenberg]

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@xxxxxxxxx>

--- linux-2.6.35.4.orig/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c	2010-08-26 19:47:12.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.35.4/drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtvfb.c	2010-09-15 14:16:46.797375399 -0400
@@ -458,6 +458,8 @@ static int ivtvfb_ioctl(struct fb_info *
 			struct fb_vblank vblank;
 			u32 trace;
 
+			memset(&vblank, 0, sizeof(struct fb_vblank));
+
 			vblank.flags = FB_VBLANK_HAVE_COUNT |FB_VBLANK_HAVE_VCOUNT |
 					FB_VBLANK_HAVE_VSYNC;
 			trace = read_reg(IVTV_REG_DEC_LINE_FIELD) >> 16;




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