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CVE-2010-4080

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-200

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 5.0
• Linux kernel: before 2.6.36; 2.6.36, 2.6.36-rc1, 2.6.36-rc2, 2.6.36-rc3, 2.6.36-rc4, 2.6.36-rc5 — fixed in 2.6.36
• Opensuse: 11.2, 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension: 11-sp1
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 10-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Linux kernel 2.6.36. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=e68d3b316ab7b02a074edc4f770e6a746390cb7d
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-01/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html
• http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/25/41
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42778
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42801
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42884
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42890
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42963
• http://secunia.com/advisories/46397

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