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Tracker / CVE-2004-0565

CVE-2004-0565

Low 2.1

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit.

Affected products and versions

gentoo linux
linux linux_kernel
mandrakesoft mandrake_linux
mandrakesoft mandrake_linux_corporate_server
mandrakesoft mandrake_multi_network_firewall
trustix secure_linux

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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