oss-security - CVE Request: kernel information leak vulnerability in Linux sound module

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Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 18:16:50 -0400
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Chengyu Song <csong84@...ech.edu>, 
	Insu Yun <insu@...ech.edu>, Taesoo Kim <taesoo@...ech.edu>
Subject: CVE Request: kernel information leak vulnerability in Linux sound module

Hello,

In file sound/core/timer.c of the latest mainline Linux kernel, the stack
object “tread” has a total size of 32 bytes. It contains a 8-bytes padding,
which is not initialized but sent to user via copy_to_user, resulting a
kernel leak.

Fix info:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/2214250

Please help assign a CVE to this vulnerability.

Thanks,
Kangjie Lu

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