An information leak flaw was found in Linux kernel for systems using Vivid! display drivers in framebuffer mode. 16 bytes of memory is not zeroed and may leak from userspace to a user at the console. Original report: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q4/115 Upstream patch: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=eda98796aff0d9bf41094b06811f5def3b4c333c
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1274730]
This requires CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVID to be enabled. None of the Fedora kernels have this driver enabled.
Statement: This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, 7 and MRG-2 as the code with the flaw is not present in the products listed.