CVE-2004-0177 in Kernelinfo

Summary

The ext3 code in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26 does not properly initialize journal descriptor blocks, which causes an information leak in which in-memory data is written to the device for the ext3 file system, which allows privileged users to obtain portions of kernel memory by reading the raw device.

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Responsible

Reservation

02/25/2004

Disclosure

06/01/2004

Entries

VDB-21881

CPE

ready

CVSS

5.3

EPSS

0.01766

Activities

Very Low

Sources

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