CVE-2008-2729 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-2729
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Description: arch/x86_64/lib/copy_user.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on some AMD64 systems does not erase destination memory locations after an exception during kernel memory copy, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/43558 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-625-1 ST 1020364 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA30849 Secunia Advisory: SA30850 Secunia Advisory: SA31107 Secunia Advisory: SA31628 Secunia Advisory: SA31551 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0585.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0519.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:174 DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1630 CONFIRM http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3022d734a54cbd2b65eea9a024564821101b4a9a;hp=f0f4c3432e5e1087b3a8c0e6bd4113d3c37497ff BID 29943

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