From ${URL} : When we read a block from the disk it normally fills a buffer but if the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be partially filled. The result is an leak information to userspace. Patch applied and committed in the next-line : http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c?id=050e4b8fb7cdd7096c987a9cd556029c622c7fe2
CVE-2013-2164 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-2164): The mmc_ioctl_cdrom_read_data function in drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c in the Linux kernel through 3.10 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory via a read operation on a malfunctioning CD-ROM drive.
(In reply to Agostino Sarubbo from comment #0) > From ${URL} : > > When we read a block from the disk it normally fills a buffer but if > the drive is malfunctioning there is a chance that it would only be > partially filled. The result is an leak information to userspace. > > Patch applied and committed in the next-line : > > http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/ > drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c?id=050e4b8fb7cdd7096c987a9cd556029c622c7fe2 That made it into linux.git as 542db01579fbb7ea7d1f7bb9ddcef1559df660b2, in 3.10.1 onwards.
