CVE-2004-0535 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0535
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Description: The e1000 driver for Linux kernel 2.4.26 and earlier does not properly initialize memory before using it, which allows local users to read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this issue was originally incorrectly reported as a "buffer overflow" by some sources.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/16159 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_20_kernel.html SGI REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-418.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-413.html MANDRAKE http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:062 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200407-02.xml FEDORA http://lwn.net/Articles/91155/ CONFIRM http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125168 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/patch-2.4.27.log CONECTIVA http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000845 BID 10352

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