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Tracker / CVE-2004-0685

CVE-2004-0685

Medium 4.6

Certain USB drivers in the Linux 2.4 kernel use the copy_to_user function on uninitialized structures, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading memory that was not cleared from previous usage.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
redhat enterprise_linux
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop
trustix secure_linux

Analysis

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