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Related Vulnerabilities

Numerous vulnerabilities in the Linux Kernel have resulted from violations of this rule. CVE-2010-4083 describes a vulnerability in which the semctl() system call allows unprivileged users to read uninitialized kernel stack memory because various fields of a semid_ds struct declared on the stack are not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.

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